Miriam Seidel is a writer, curator, librettist, and longtime sci-fi fan. She wrote the libretto for an opera about the visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, performed in Belgrade, New York, and Philadelphia, and a sci-fi radio play for New American Radio. She's written about visual arts and performance for Art in America, the Philadelphia Inquirer and other publications, and her writing has won fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. This is her first novel.