About the Authors
Andrew Amster was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He was accepted into a creative writing program as a college freshman. This took less than a single semester to prove ridiculous; he had yet to do anything in his life and so had nothing to write about. Predictably, this lead to his professors calling his poems “didactic” and his short stories “melodramatic horseshit.” They were not wrong.
Since then, Amster has lived a bit. He has been a geologist, a teacher, an occasional poet, and the writer/editor of assorted science educational doodads. He is the father of two, the husband of one, and has eventually seen years do what years do. He likes movies and hates yard work.
Although Amy Pallant has written and published a lot about science education, she has never written about herself until now. She is a Senior Research Scientist at a nonprofit educational research/development organization where she has directed numerous National Science Foundation-funded projects focused on Earth systems modeling and engaging students in making sense of the world around them.
Amy was first diagnosed with PCOS in 1975 at age 12 and has a healthy love/hate relationship with the medical field. She lives outside Boston with her husband/editor.