Marianne Dyson was one of NASA's first female flight controllers during the early Space Shuttle Program. Her children's books have won the SCBWI's Golden Kite Award and the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. Her science articles and science fiction stories for adults and children have appeared in national magazines and anthologies, and she is a frequent contributor to Ad Astra, the magazine of the National Space Society. She enjoys sharing her passion for space at schools, museums, conferences, and with her cat, who is a very good listener. She has served as a technical editor for Scholastic and as a National Geographic Explorer, and is a life member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. To invite her to speak, review your space-related book, or just to say hello, please visit her website, http://www.mdyson.com, or find her on Twitter and Facebook.