S. E. Vivian* grew up climbing trees in Oakland, California in the 1970s, a curious kid with orange-juice hair. Drawn to the intersection of science and philosophy, she decided to be an astrophysicist when she was eleven. Fifteen years later, she wrote her PhD thesis on solar magnetism. Throughout her life and career, she has benefited from a conviction born of science fiction that science needs a narrative to drive it forward. Her novels are the result of a long-simmering curiosity about how that story will turn out for humans on Earth.
