Robert Holt is a retired field biologist and a former science educator, having taught Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics at the secondary level. Beyond writing science curriculum and providing technical editing for science text books, he has written a novel, two anthologies of speculative fiction, and is currently working on the second novel in this series about Laurie, the blue alien girl, and a third anthology of speculative fiction. Robert’s hobbies include nature photography and collecting fossils, sea shells, rocks and minerals. Although he and his wife presently reside in Washington, his mind is often somewhere out in space...well, after all, his father was from Alpha Centauri...but that’s another story...