Greg Beatty is a Rhysling Award winning author of poetry and prose, primarily in the science fiction and fantasy genres. The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction fantasy or horror poem of the year Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting He received his BA from the University of Washington and a PhD from the University of Iowa. See Washington (disambiguation for other uses The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research University The University of Iowa, is a major teaching service and Research university located on a campus in Iowa City Iowa, on the banks of the Iowa River He attended Clarion West, as it was then known, in 2000 and currently lives in Bellingham, Washington with his wife. Clarion is a six-week workshop for new and aspiring Science fiction and Fantasy writers 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Bellingham, Washington is the County seat of Whatcom County in the U [1]