Biography
Born on a leap-year cusp in February 1984, Maureen Avis has always lived in the space between two worlds. The daughter of a jazz musician father and a theoretical physicist mother, she grew up with one foot in the rhythmic soul of the past and the other in the cold, bright stars of the future. Maureen is the author of the Chronosphere trilogy, a series praised for its unflinching realism and its "poetic approach to the physics of time." Her writing often explores the "hidden fractures" of the human experience a theme she carries with her literally. Above her left eye lies a faint, jagged reminder of a childhood winter in Chicago: a scar earned from a rock-laden snowball. Today, it is partially masked by a silver bar piercing, a choice Maureen calls "an act of terraforming my own history." A graduate of MIT with a degree in Astrobiology, Maureen now splits her time between her rain-swept study in Seattle and various research outposts around the globe. She is rarely seen without her signature amethyst pendant - a birthstone she wears as a grounding weight while her mind drifts through the furthest reaches of the galaxy.