During his forty years as a professor of English, IAN MACMILLAN has brought honor to the department, the university, and the state of Hawai'i by virtue of his contributions to the arts. As a fiction writer, he has authored seven novels and four short story collections and has made more than a 100 appearances in literary and commercial magazines. He continues to be remarkably prolific, and his works have frequently been honored for literary excellence. Surely Ian's extraordinary record of publication and recognition is well known to everyone in our department. The inclusion of his stories in prize anthologies, his O. Henry Award, and his Pen-USA-West Award in Fiction are only a few examples of his many literary accomplishments.

ANNE KENNEDY, the English Department's Distinguished Visiting Writer for the Fall 2006 semester, was born in Wellington, Aotearoa /New Zealand and grew up there as the youngest child in a large Irish Catholic family. Anne has a background in music. She received a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Victoria University, and she is an Associate of Trinity College of London in Piano and Theory of Music. She also has a certificate in Journalism, and truly remarkable range—and distinction--as a writer, an editor, and a teacher of writing.

For the past twenty years, Anne has worked as a screenwriter and editor. She is the author of screenplays for three feature films (CRUSH, THE MONKEY'S MASK and FOREVER), and of several short films, and she has worked closely with many film-makers as a screenplay editor, including with Niki Caro (the director of WHALERIDER).

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