Nivair H. Gabriel has worked as an aerospace engineer, a children’s book editor, and a science fiction reporter. These have all been close enough to her childhood dream of being both a writer and an astronaut.

Nivair is the co-publisher of Scattered Light Press and has edited books for Albert Whitman & Company and Barefoot Books. Her work has appeared in io9.com, the Daily Dragon, Fantasy Magazine, Marvels & Tales, and the Hugo Award–winning Weird Tales. She has also presented work on intersectional feminism and Indigenous futurist thought at WisCon, Sirens, the Children’s Literature Association, and the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. She reviews books for Kirkus Reviews and has served as a cultural and sensitivity consultant for Wizards of the Coast, most notably on its first all–People of Color Dungeons & Dragons book, Journeys through the Radiant Citadel.

Nivair earned her MA in Children’s Literature and MFA in Writing for Children from Simmons College. She earned her BS in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop.

Nivair has flown in “zero gravity,” and it was amazing.