Barbara A. Liepe

Since Barbara was a teenager, she has been captivated by the natural world and earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, at Berkeley focused on fish photoreceptors. She has authored a number of publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Barbara loves to create fictional worlds based on factual biology. She recently read My Absolute Darling, Your Inner Fish, All the Light We Cannot See, A Wrinkle in Time, The Emperor of all Maladies, and The Cambrian Explosion. She loves Dawkins and Faulkner and composes most of her scenes while out on a five-mile run in the Berkeley/Oakland Hills. She is currently a sales representative in the life sciences and she and her husband, Frank, live in Berkeley, California, and have three children.