Let your imagination run freely into the future, accompanied by curiosity and hope.

Brenda is a technology professional, a science fiction writer and a futurist.

As a futurist, she has worked with Glen Hiemstra for over ten years. Brenda writes regularly for Futurist.com and engages in public speaking about the future, technology and writing.

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 now CIO of the City of Kirkland, Washington.

As a writer, Brenda has worked extensively with the well-known science fiction author Larry Niven. She and Larry’s collaborative fiction has appeared in Analog and Asimov’s science fiction. They have a current book out from Tor, BUIILDING HARLEQUIN’S MOON. Her solo fiction has appeared in Nature, Analog, Strange Horizons, The Salal Review, and multiple anthologies. Brenda’s latest book,THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, came out in March, 2007 and is currently available in bookstores and online. Her next novel, READING THE WIND, is due out in early 2008.

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. She has an adult son, David Cooper, a firefighter/paramedic with Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue.

For more information about Brenda, you can visit Brenda’s Website and blog.