I have spent most of my life in Alaska with the stunning Chugach Range as my backyard and the blue waters of Resurrection Bay just a couple hours down the highway. When I’m not hiking, biking, or skiing with my rescue pups, I can be found at my workbench writing science fiction stories and building things that fly.

My writing draws on these everyday Last Frontier experiences as well as adventures around the world. I have hitchhiked across the Sahara Desert, bought a horse and rode it between villages in the African Sahel, and narrowly avoided arrest crossing into Ghana shortly after a revolution. Backpacking in the Grand Canyon informed my stories of crossing Valles Marineris on Mars.

I combine an adventurous spirit with a degree from MIT in Earth and Planetary Science to create compelling science fiction populated by complex characters who are faced with problems extrapolated from the world we live in now.