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Catherine Asaro grew up near Berkeley, California. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics and her M.A. in Physics, both from Harvard, and a B.S. with Highest Honors in Chemistry from UCLA. Among the places she has done research are the University of Toronto, the Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik in Germany, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A former ballet and jazz dancer, she founded the Mainly Jazz Dance program at Harvard and was a principal dancer and artistic director of Mainly Jazz and the Harvard University Ballet. Her husband is John Kendall Cannizzo, the proverbial rocket scientist. They have one daughter, a ballet dancer and mathematics enthusiast.

Catherine has also written
Primary Inversion, Catch the Lightning, The Last Hawk, The Radiant Seas, Ascendant Sun, The Quantum Rose, Spherical Harmonic,
and
The Moon’s Shadow,
all part of the Skolian Saga;
The Veiled Web, The Phoenix Code,
and
Sunrise Alley,
near-future science fiction; and
The Charmed Sphere,
a romantic fantasy. Her work has won numerous awards, including the Nebula for
The Quantum Rose.
She can be reached by e-mail at [email protected] and on the Web at http://www.sff.net/people/ asaro/. To receive e-mail updates on her releases, please e-mail the above address.