Iris V. Summers is a New Mexico-born engineer and writer who studied mechanical engineering at New Mexico Tech and planetary science at the University of Arizona. She spent a decade as a field specialist on geothermal projects in Nevada and Iceland before consulting for early space-resource startups in Luxembourg and California. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in small-circulation journals and online zines, where she explores working-class futures and off-world industry. She now lives in Seattle, mentors robotics teams, and hikes volcanoes whenever the rain lets up.
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