Monalisa Foster

Monalisa's writing career really began when she taught herself English by reading and translating Heinlein juveniles at the public library. After she devoured the juvenile section, she moved on to the grown-up books.

She made her first professional sale to Kristine Katherine Rusch, a short story called Pretending to Sleep. Her short stories have been published in Fantastic Hope, The Founder Effect, World Breakers, Robosoldiers, and The Ross 248 Project.

While space opera is her favorite genre to write, she has written in several speculative subgenres, Romance, and Literature.

She is currently working on sequels, both to Threading the Needle and in her Ravages of Honor series.

Monalisa graduated with dreams of becoming an astrophysicist. Instead she designed and tested semiconductors, worked on an engineering master’s degree, and then tackled the hardest job on Earth--motherhood. Eventually she was recruited to run radiation oncology and nuclear medicine research programs.