Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

(1942 –)

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is an active fantasy/SF author who ran a science fiction club, the Fanatics, from the mid-1960s through the 1970s. In person, she does not use the name Chelsea at all, but is called Quinn.

Her group nurtured a generation of Bay Area fans. The club published at least two issues of a fanzine, The Voice of the Gryphon -- the cover was drawn by Quinn and included the phrase "Today is the first day of creation."

Quinn was the unofficial fourth chair of the 1968 Worldcon, Baycon -- Bill Donaho, Alva Rogers, and J. Ben Stark, the official chairs, were frequently referred to as "Donaho, Rogers and Stark, tra la" with Quinn taking the role of the "tra la."

She was married to fan artist Don Simpson in the ’70s.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1981 -- WisCon 5, ConNiption
• 1982 -- Bubonicon 13
• 1983 -- Loscon 10
• 1984 -- Minicon 18
• 1985 -- Toastmaster at the 1985 World Fantasy Convention
• 1986 -- WisCon 10
• 1988 -- Archon 12
• 1989 -- Unicon in California, LepreCon 15
• 1990 -- Toastmaster at ConFiction
• 1997 -- Necon 17
• 1999 -- LibertyCon 13
• 2001 -- TusCon 28
• 2003 -- World Horror Convention Grandmaster
• 2007 -- MileHiCon 39
• 2009 -- Continuum 5
• 2011 -- Chattacon XXXVI
• 2014 -- Conjecture 2014, World Fantasy Convention Life Achievement Award
• 2015 -- World Fantasy Convention 2015

• Photo at Noreascon 1, 1971.
• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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