Kristin Krause is a teacher and a biologist. She holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in biology. After earning her doctorate from Dartmouth College, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she learned to slice a fruit fly’s eye into 5,000 extraordinarily thin pieces. She spent two years as a crew member on tall ships, which led her to write Last Voyage of the Hornet: The Story that Made Mark Twain Famous, published by Royal Fireworks Press. She keeps busy as an adjunct professor and has three teenaged sons.