Joe Haldeman sold his first story in 1969, while he was still in the army, post-Vietnam, and has been a constant writer ever since, with a little time off for teaching. He’s written about two dozen novels and five collections of short stories and poetry, and appears in about twenty languages, including Klingon, which he suspects will generate letters he won’t want to answer.

Since 1983, he and his wife Gay have spent one semester a year in Cambridge, MA, teaching at MIT.  He is an associate professor (adjunct) in the Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies.

His novels The Forever War and Forever Peace won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards;  Forever Peace also won the John W, Campbell Award, the first such “triple crown” since Pohl’s Gateway, 22 years
earlier.  He’s won several other Nebulas and Hugos, and three times
the Rhysling Award for science fiction poetry, as well as the World Fantasy Award.  His 2004 novel, Camouflage, won the James Tiptree Award for gender exploration.  His latest novel is Old Twentieth, and it
was joined in 2005 by War Stories, a collection that reprints his
Vietnam fiction — two novels and several short stories and narrative poems.

He also paints and plays guitar, both as a devoted amateur, and bicycles whenever the weather allows.  He and his wife recently bicycled across America, 3050 miles, from Florida to California.  When he can, he seeks out dark skies for his 12″ telescope.

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