A Conversation with Shariann Lewitt, Author

Shariann Lewitt is the author of seventeen novels under five different names, spanning the genres of hard science fiction, fantasy, and young adult. Her short fiction has been widely published and her story “Fieldwork” was selected for Thirty-Fourth Best Science Fiction of the Year, edited by Gardner Dozois.

A third generation Manhattanite, Lewitt moved to the greater Boston area in 2000 and has become a proud citizen of the Red Sox Nation. She dropped out of pre-law to study evolutionary/population biology in college—because law school looked dismal, and she was afraid of fainting in bio lab like she did in high school. She did her graduate work at Yale and never returned to live in NYC. When not writing in local coffee shops, she teaches at MIT, plays with her pet parrots, and travels as widely as possible.

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