Aimee Ogden is a former science teacher and software tester; now she writes about sad astronauts and angry princesses. Her novellas “Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters” and “Local Star” debuted in 2021 from Tor.com and Interstellar Flight Press respectively, and her short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Clarkesworld, Analog, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She’s a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop, and with Bennett North she co-edits Translunar Travelers Lounge, a magazine of fun and optimistic speculative fiction. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, her seven-year-old twins, and a dog named Commander Riker.