Kelli Fitzpatrick

Kelli Fitzpatrick grew up in rural Michigan. Her writing career began when her Star Trek short story “The Sunwalkers” won the 2016 Strange New Worlds contest and was published by Simon and Schuster. She went on to become a contributing writer for the Star Trek Adventures role-playing game from Modiphius Entertainment. She is the author of several short stories in venues like Flash Fiction Online and Still Life, as well as essays at StarTrek.com, Women at Warp, and others. She has worked as an English teacher, served as an editor for the Journal of Popular Culture and the Dunes Review, and has done science writing for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope outreach team and Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative.