Michele Lent Hirsch is a writer and editor who specializes in science, gender, and health. Her nonfiction has appeared in or on the Atlantic, the Guardian, Smithsonian, Psychology Today, and Consumer Reports, among other outlets, and her poetry in the Bellevue Literary Review and Rattle. She has taught journalism at Manhattanville College, conducted research as a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A native New Yorker, she is also a member of Columbia University’s Neuwrite network, a selective group of writers and scientists. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Yasmin B. Kafai, Ph.D., is a Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, past president of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), and an executive editor of the Journal of the Learning Sciences.
Tim grew up in Essex, England. Traumatized as a toddler by older brothers and the cover art of Brian Aldiss’ Space, Time and Nathaniel, he grew up with an abnormally active imagination. After discovering Tolkien and mentally devouring the world’s supply of fantasy fiction, he moved on to Science Fiction and has been an avid fan since. Tim loves to hike, play guitar, electronic music, and draw terrible pictures. He also writes software and is particularly fascinated by artificial intelligence and hopes to one day create an artificial mind that will replace his own and do all his work. Until then, he lives and works in Florida with his non-artificial-wife, pet computers and imaginary dogs.
