Committee

Let us introduce ourselves:

	Kristin Thorrud is a second generation museum nerd. She graduated in textile and costume history, and has a background as an illustrator. She has been an active member of the science fiction and fantasy communities in her home country of Norway since 1982, and in Sweden since 1994, and has arranged SF conventions in both countries. Kristin works as a curator for the collections at Sveriges Järnvägsmuseum / The Swedish Railway Museum, and she is Steampunk Festival’s general organizer.
	Anna Davour, also known as Åka, stumbled into the science fiction community in 1996 and very quickly got her bearings. Since then, she has helped to arrange several SF congresses. She fully embraced steampunk in 2010, when she published a topical issue of her fanzine. Ever since then, she has been running her blog. She is a physicist and a scientific journalist, and also the other general organizer of the Steampunk Festival.
	Daniel Albertsson’s aim is to become a librarian at a natural sciences library (in order to even out years spent studying the humanities). He can usually be found together with his friends, where there is good food and drink aplenty. Otherwise, he prefers a good book and a cosy bed. For some reason unknown, he always ends up being the bursar in non-profit contexts, likewise at the Steampunkfestival.
	Tomas Cronholm has been an sf fan for a long time and has been involved in a large number of congress committees, most recently as treasurer for Fantastika 2013 and Eurocon 2011. On his blog (bugeyedmonsters.wordpress.com) he writes about books he has read and sf cons he has visited. He is now the treasurer for the Steampunk festival.
	Britt-Inger Johansson has read Heinlein, Asimov and Tolkien since she was a child. Steampunk is a new acquaintance that fascinates a professor of Art History, whose daily work consists of arranging interdisciplinary conferences, workshops and guest lectures at Uppsala university, not at least because of its aestheticising impact. Together with Mattias, she will be responsible of the festival’s LARP, a task she is preparing for by attending this year’s Monitor Celestra and an enthralling symposium on speculative fiction on April 23rd, 2013.
	Tony Meijer, who descibes himself appropriately as “charming, brilliant and gallant” is the festival’s organizational pillar.
	Anna M. Mondry, a dedicated linguist and philologist, is interested in anything concerned with language, coffee, running, and corsets. In a way, she doesn’t fully understand how she ended up in SF, which appealed to her so much that she didn’t bother to find a way out again. Within the Steampunk Festival, she is responsible for the website’s contents, and social media.
	Maria Nygård is a librarian. The Steampunkfestival is the second convention she is a part of arranging – the first was Kontrast in Uppsala 2012. Maria is involved in programme planning and the website.
	Anna Westermark is an illustrator with a strong interest in the fantastic and the mythological. She loves historical areas and has worked as an educator in various museums and castles. She has dedicated much of the last fifteen years to sewing and to creating fantasy costumes and jewellery for fantasy events. Anna is much intrigued by the imaginative handicraft and the reimagining of historical sources of inspiration that have shaped steampunk.
	Mattias Westermark is an escapist to a great extent, but he has never before gotten involved in congresses or science fiction conventions. However, he has organized various LARP-related events, theatre, entertainment, and decor formany years. He is working as a science teacher and is responsible for the LARP-momentum at the Steampunk Festival.