Aimee Ogden is a former science teacher and software tester; now she writes about sad astronauts and angry princesses. Her work has also appeared in Analog, Fireside, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and with Bennett North, she co-edits Translunar Travelers Lounge, a magazine of fun and optimistic speculative fiction. Her novellas Local Star and Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters are forthcoming in 2020 and 2021 from Interstellar Flight Press and Tor.com respectively.