I’m a science fiction writer and strategic foresight consultant living in Toronto. I was born in Los Angeles, but spent most of my life just outside Seattle, in a little community that looked a lot like Twin Peaks. I was in the Honors Program at Seattle University, a Jesuit school on Capitol Hill. We were a 25-student cohort studying Heraclitus to Hitler, for two years. It was incestuous, but also awesome. After that I did two departmental honours projects — one on enforced prostitution in Nazi concentration camps, and the other on incest in science fiction. It was during that second project that I met Ursula K. LeGuin, and I decided that I wanted to become a science fiction writer. (My anime fandom probably played a pretty significant role in that decision, too.)

In 2006, I immigrated to Canada. I couldn’t work or study legally, so I decided to hone my fiction. I auditioned for a genre writers’ workshop, and got in. I’m still a member, and since then I’ve written a handful of short stories, two Master’s theses, some science fiction prototypes for Intel Labs, and two novels.