Nivair H. Gabriel has whiled away her thirty years of life on Earth as a writer, feminist, engineer, photographer, and fangirl. She is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and has contributed to io9.com, Fantasy Magazine, Pittsburgh Magazine, MIT’s The Tech, and the Hugo Award-winning Weird Tales. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recently, she also attained a Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing for Children and a Master of Arts degree in Children’s Literature from Simmons College. Full bio…
Of course, Dara had been bored and loud about it for every minute of the drive here. Now that I needed him to distract us with some antic from all this emotion, he stood still as a stone in the dullest alternate universe. Papa and I had just finished hugging, and judging by Mom’s tear-dampened … read more
During my last year at MIT, my amazing friend Danielle and I bonded over our shared love of feminism, the arts, and smashing stereotypes. She was a computer science genius and cheerleader; I was a writer and aerospace engineer. We met at Senior House, a haven for artsy students that MIT destroyed*. While this is … read more
Tomas is grumbling again on shift. I don’t want to give him the slightest encouragement, but he’s distracting me even now, so I have to say something. We’re both human, after all. “Problem, fellow?” I ask. Polite. Direct. “Not besides the usual,” he answers, and yanks something large and metal out of the wall—a long … read more