Who is Laura J. Mixon?
I’m a nerd. An environmental engineer with a master of science degree in sustainability management, and over 35 years of experience in creating programs and information systems to protect the environment and promote sustainable business practices.
I’ve done audits and other investigative work on pollution sources; designed apps and managed rollout of integrated systems that track pollutant emissions, eliminate landfill waste, and reduce water and energy use in industrial processes.
I’ve also done a bit of game design. With game designer Chris Crawford, I co-founded a game company and I worked with him to create Storytron*, an interactive storytelling tool. I firmly believe that it, or its successors, will someday transform the nature of storytelling. (Think Baby Holodeck.)
I’m also a science fiction writer: a spinner of far-flung tales—stories of interstellar travel, planetary disasters, spaceships, rogue AI’s, planet-eating machines, sentient tumors… and the people who struggle to survive on the fringes of the world. I have six books out, as well as a handful of shorter works**.
I’m a chronically-ill, genderqueer, bisexual, intersectional feminist and environmentalist. A motherbeast. A spouse. A nature lover and green-chile eater, who wrote their first “novel” (four wide-ruled pages, handwritten in crayon, bound in purple yarn) at age eight, then discovered science fiction at age eleven, and never looked back.
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*Chris gave birth to interactive storytelling, but was kind enough to grant me paternity rights.
