Writing

I’ve been writing and publishing for more than 25 years now, so there’s a lot of it out there if you know where to look. This page mostly highlights fiction in book form.

Playing Astronaut: How a Toddler Helped the Apollo Missions

Based on a true story, this picture book reveals the surprising contribution that one little girl made to fault-tolerant programming—and the future of space travel. I wrote it with the help of Margaret Hamilton (director of flight control programming for the Apollo Guidance Computer), who told me the story from her own life. Sign up for a preorder notification!

Queens & Courtesans and Witches & Warriors, Sirens Benefit Anthologies

These anthologies started as an idle daydream between friends, and became a spectacular team project—a way for a bunch of early-career writers to put our voices out there and honor the organization that brought us together. They are labors of love; everyone who worked on them did so for free, and we decided to donate all proceeds to the Sirens conference for women in fantasy literature.

For me, these anthologies were not only a splendid way for me to support the community that has given me so much. They were also a way to tackle a publishing goal alongside kindred spirits, a chance to work on a professional project with no gatekeeper but passion. As someone recovering from brain damage and starting graduate school, I could only have contributed to a project like this, a noncompetitive and not-for-profit collaboration that was all about exploring ideas. There is no audience I’d rather write for than my sisters at Sirens—and if your great love is feminist fantastic fiction, I consider you a Sirens sister, for sure.