I got my bachelors from Yale, where I worked on mainly drama and poetry (and managed to snag the award for best essay in the English major).

A creative writing Fulbright grant took me to Pakistan for a year, where I wrote science fiction soap operas. I later took over the features desk at one of the main independent newspapers there.

 

I moved to San Francisco to work as a technical and marketing writer for bleeding edge networking companies; commuted to NJ every week to set up a documentation management system for Pfizer; reported for the local NPR affiliate, covering science and technology (as I had at The Village Voice when I lived in New York).