Growing up, I was a storyteller through D&D, drawing, painting, sculpting, and more.​

As a Ph.D. student, and then as a professor at Stanford, I studied geophysics and wrote technical papers about the Earth.​
 

As an entrepreneur, I learned how to write with empathy and to cater my words to the people they were intended for.

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When I became chronically ill in 2018, I began writing science fiction as an outlet for my creativity and as an escape from my body.