Brenda is a technology professional, a science fiction writer and a futurist. Brenda’s fiction has appeared in Nature, Analog, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, The Salal Review, and multiple anthologies. Brenda has three novels out with Tor books: THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, its sequel, READING THE WIND, and a collaboration with Larry Niven titled BUILDING HARLEQUIN’S MOON. Her next novel, WINGS OF CREATION, will be out in November, 2009. Brenda is represented by Eleanor Wood at the Spectrum Literary Agency. As a futurist, she has worked with Glen Hiemstra for over ten years. Brenda gives talks about the future, technology, and writing. She blogs regularly at http://www.brenda-cooper.com and periodically guest-blogs at Futurist.com and other venues. Brenda is a member of the Futurist Board for the Lifeboat Foundation. As a technology professional, Brenda started out in Aerospace, where she worked on some of the early efforts to apply knowledge engineering to the field. She is currently CIO of the City of Kirkland, Washington. Brenda was educated at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a BA in Management Information Systems. She lives in Bellevue, Washington with her partner, Toni Cramer, Toni’s daughter Katie, and two dogs. She has an adult son, David Cooper, a firefighter/paramedic with Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue.