Cassandra Nordstrom is a Swedish American writer and software engineer based in Seattle. Born in 1987 in Uppsala, she immigrated to the United States as a teenager and studied computer science and applied physics at the University of Washington. She spent a decade building navigation software for cubesats and ocean drones, work that took her to research labs in Pasadena, Kiruna, and Reykjavík. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Analog, and several best-of anthologies, and she is a recipient of a grant from the Swedish Arts Council. When she is not writing, she mentors high school robotics teams, practices cold-water freediving in the Salish Sea, and restores vintage oscilloscopes. She lives with a cartographer and a retired sled dog.
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