American sci-fi writer, born on August 28, 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She spent her childhood on the east coast of the United States and in The Hague, the Netherlands, and Poland, before her family settled in Seattle. She has a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Washington. She attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in the same year. She also went to the University of Washington to do graduate work in genetics. She passed away on April 1, 2019 in Seattle, Washington, USA.