Laura J. Mixon (born December 8, 1957) is a chemical and environmental engineer better known as a science fiction writer.[1] She writes about the impact of technology and environmental changes on personal identity and social structures. Her work has been the focus of academic studies on the intersection of technology, feminism, and gender. She has also experimented with interactive storytelling, in collaboration with renowned game designer Chris Crawford.[2] She is married to SF writer Steven Gould (Jumper), with whom she collaborated on the novel Greenwar. In 2011, she began publishing under the pen name Morgan J. Locke.[3][4] Under that name, she is one of the writers for the group blog Eat Our Brains.
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Mixon was born in December of 1957 and went on to become a Chemical and Environmental Engineer. In the 1980s, she took a break from that work to serve in the Peace Corps in East Africa. Her first book, Astropilots, was published as part of a Young Adult series by Scholastic/Omni books in 1987. Her second novel, Glass Houses, was originally serialized in Analog Magazine in 1991; it was published by Tor Books the following year. She wrote her next book, Proxies, set in the same universe as Glass Houses, but with a bigger scope.[5] Burning the Ice continues the story begun in Proxies, but takes place long after the colony ship has left Earth.
Mixon is married to SF writer Steven Gould, with whom she has two daughters. They live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[2][6]