I put in my Instagram bio “I write hopeful sci-fi about kickass people working together IN SPACE.” That hopeful is very important to me.

Generation ships fascinate me. The distance between Earth and the closest star system to us, Alpha Centauri, is about four lightyears. This Space News article reports that with our current generation of spacecraft it would take over 148,000 years for humans to travel there.

The tall trees and ceiling make the interior expansive, like you could be outside when you are instead completely indoors. That’s the feeling I wanted inside my asteroids in the deep emptiness of space.

I've long loved fiction centered around queer characters, and in the last few years I've been adoring the trend in science fiction and fantasy worlds that people create where queer people just unapologetically exist, being badasses.

It all begins with an iWhile The Dementia is my first novel, I've been writing fanfiction for 25 years and one theme that has emerged in my long stories is how our heroes relate and live in the community around them, and how their communities shape them. Thinking about communities and how they evolve in the petri dish of a generation colony ship — or better yet four that end up in radically different places — is actually where the story came from.dea.

Humans transforming their space environments with living plants is very important to me, and it's only partly because I love gardening. I love the idea because it's a twist on the classic science fiction look and feel from Star Trek and Star Wars and the space-based sci-fi books I read growing up.