Samantha Stonebridge (b. 1985) is a Canadian-British science fiction writer and former radio astronomer. Raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she earned a BSc in physics from Dalhousie and an MSc in astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh, then worked on signal processing for Square Kilometre Array pathfinder projects at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. After a stint in Berlin designing data narratives for a climate-tech startup, she moved to the Pacific Northwest and began publishing short fiction in venues such as Clarkesworld, Analog, and Escape Pod. Her novels blend hard-science detail with intimate character arcs; previous releases include Eventide Pilgrim (2017) and The Hush Between Orbits (2021). Stonebridge lives in Seattle, where she volunteers with Girls Who Code and hikes the Cascades with a very opinionated border collie.
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