Chris McKitterick is your contact for information about the KU technical-communication program, and he teaches (and developed curriculum for) each of the technical-communication courses offered at KU. To contact him about taking a course, helping develop a course for your KU School or Department, discussing possible internships with your organization, or announcing jobs in the field, please send him an email.

McKitterick's KU campus office:
     3081 Wescoe Hall

Beyond teaching, McKitterick is an author, editor, technical writer, amateur astronomer, and back-yard engineer. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1991, and his M.A. in English from KU in 1996. He has minor concentrations in writing, astronomy, and psychology.

McKitterick's technical-writing publications began with astronomy newsletters, science articles, gaming documentation, and advertising materials. For six years, he wrote for the Microsoft Windows Server Resource Kit series and other software publishers, and his contributions to these projects have earned 11 Society for Technical Communications (STC) awards. He was a documentation manager for Microsoft Press publications, and speaks regularly at conferences and training sessions on a variety of writing and editing topics.

McKitterick is also a fiction writer, journalist, poet, essayist, and biographer. Since his work first saw print in 1984, he has sold to markets including Analog, Artemis, Captain Proton, E-Scape, Extrapolation, Mythic Circles, NOTA, Ruins: Extraterrestrial, Synergy SF, Tomorrow SF, Top Deck magazine, various TSR publications, Visual Journeys, and a bowling poem anthology. He is currently working on a new novel, a manual for building a sports car, and a technical-writing textbook. In 1995, he won the William Herbert Carruth Memorial Prize for Poetry. Since 1995, he has taught fiction writing at the CSSF Science Fiction Writer’s Workshop and elsewhere.

McKitterick is nominations director for the Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science-fiction story of the year, and is a juror on the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science-fiction novel of the year.