Rocco Samuele is a writer, technology developer, and university lecturer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has developed exoplanet observation technologies for sounding rocket missions and future space telescopes. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan’s Zell Writers’ Program and an MS in Astrophysics from Ohio University’s Astrophysical Institute. His work has been published in The Astrophysical Journal, Fiction Writers Review, and Opium Magazine, among others.