Emily M. Dietrich is a technical science writer by day and a speculative fiction writer by night. Her adventures in space, multiverses, and limitless coffee starts and stops in books, and it’s been one wild ride. She earned her graduate degree from the University of Chicago, and has a short story, “Alterity,” that won first place in the Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards for Science Fiction / Fantasy. Any free time she has is spent imagining parallel universes and wandering around outside.