2011 Port Townsend Writers’ Conference afternoon faculty member Brian Christian was on Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” last night. Check out the clip below!

Christian, who attended the conference as a student in 2007 and 2008, will be returning in 2011 as a resident and faculty member. His writing appears in AGNI, Seneca Review, Gulf Coast, and Ninth Letter, among others, as well as in such scientific journals as Cognitive Science. He was named “The Most Human Human” at the 2009 Türing Test, described in his new book. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Christian holds degrees in philosophy, computer science, and poetry from Brown University and the University of Washington.