Amy Charles is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Maytag Fellow and Teaching-Writing Fellow in fiction. A former Congressional staffer, industry analyst, journalist, ad exec, and music librarian, she's worked as a science writer and editor for the last decade, writing for the Smithsonian, Nature Education, Lablit, The College Board, and the UI Department of Chemistry. She teaches professional science and scientific writing, literary science essay, and composition.