Dexter Van Allen grew up in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and studied electrical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He spent a decade building fault-tolerant firmware for small satellites and remote sensing instruments before pivoting to technical consulting and speculative fiction in 2016. His short work has appeared with small presses and has been translated into Spanish and Romanian. When he is not writing, he volunteers at a community makerspace and mentors high school robotics teams. Van Allen lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner, their child, and an elderly rescue greyhound.
