#30 Jamie Krakover
Growing up with a fascination for space and things that fly, Jamie wanted to be an astronaut as a kid. While that dream faded, she eventually joined her interest in math and science with her passion for space into a career as an Aerospace Engineer. Which wasn’t much of a surprise knowing that sci fi was always on TV in her house, and her parents always took her to the latest science fiction movies. Combining her natural enthusiasm for Science Fiction and her love of reading, she now spends a lot of her time writing Middle Grade and Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Jamie lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her husband, Andrew, their son, and their dog Rogue (after the X-Men, not Star Wars, although she loves both). When she isn’t being a Rocket Scientist by day and a writer by night, she can be found catching up on the latest sci fi TV, books, and movies as well as spending time on Twitter (maybe a little too much time :-P). And no, the rocket science jokes never get old!
Through Snowy Wings Publishing, Jamie is the author of Tracker220 (October 2020) a fast paced, young adult sci fi novel with a Jewish main character that explores a futuristic world with advanced technology and the sacrifices we make for it. She also has two female in STEM short stories published in the Brave New Girls anthologies with proceeds going to the Society of Women Engineers Scholarship Fund and two engineering-centered nonfiction pieces published in Writer’s Digest’s Putting the Science in Fiction aimed at writers who want to write more accurate science fiction.
Jamie is ecstatic to have her work flying to the Moon. It joins her love of space with her writing. She selected her debut novel Tracker220 to fly to the moon because she leveraged her love of engineering to support the writing of this novel. She also selected her two short stories in the Brave New Girls anthologies to be included in the payload because it exemplifies her passion for supporting women in engineering. She hopes that one day women will have a more equal representation in engineering.
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