That was my first science fiction convention. I was may 15 or 16. A few years later when I was a freshman at the University of Washington, at Norwescon, I heard this amazing woman writer speak and she mention she was a UW professor. So I decided to take her class. That was Joanna Russ.
After I'd taken her classes, Joanna suggest that I go to Clarion West which was just restarting. She sent a postcard to an editor who was teaching that year, telling him she was sending him a student. That was David Hartwell.
Random connections that make our lives
In 1997 I married David Hartwell.