Kathleen Ann Goonan has been a packer for a moving company, a vagabond, a madrigal singer, a painter of watercolors, and a fiercely omnivorous reader. She has a degree in English and Association Montessori Internationale certification. After teaching for thirteen years, ten of them in her own one-hundred-student school, she began writing. She has published over twenty short stories in venues such as Omni, Asimov’s, F&SF, Interzone, scifi.com, and a host of others. Her Nanotech Quartet includes Queen City Jazz, Mississippi Blues, Crescent City Rhapsody, and Light Music; CCR and LM were both shortlisted for the Nebula Award. The Bones Of Time, shortlisted for the Clarke Award, is set in Hawaii. Her most recent novel is In War Time. Her novels and short stories have been published in France, Poland, Russia, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, and Japan. “Literature, Consciousness, and Science Fiction” recently appeared in the Iowa Review online journal. She speaks frequently at various universities about nanotechnology and literature.