I wouldn't say I had been in the fandom, exactly, but I did read the Saiyuki Gaiden series and read a bit of fic.

Aw, thank you. I'm looking forward to running the course better than I did in 2010, which did not quite go as planned.

And...we connected through Sutcliff novel fandom, but quickly discovered that we moved in the same circles back in our University of Maryland days. I'm not sure we actually met, but we have lots of old friends in common and attended many of the same events.