Andrea Kail was born in New York City in 1969, right in the middle of the first moon shot and grew up in the historic Stuyvesant Town housing development, which, unfortunately, had nothing to do with either NASA or the moon.

Andrea turned to books at a very early age because she wasn't allowed to watch television. She got her revenge, however, by attending NYU's film school, Tisch School of the Arts, and eventually stumbling into a career in the entertainment industry from which she has yet to extricate herself.

In 2004, she attended the Odyssey Writing Workshop where she studied fiction writing with World Fantasy Award winning editor Jeanne Cavelos and New York Times best selling author George RR Martin.

Andrea's fiction has been published in a couple of places, and in 2007, she became a Writers of the Future winner.

And nearly forty years later, she still lives in Stuyvesant Town, which, alas, still has nothing to do with NASA.

Or the moon.