Jetse de Vries has been a commissioning engineer, troubleshooter, trainer, travelling all five continents. He nearly froze to death at Salar de Uyuni, suffered heatstroke in Purnululu, got lost in Ahmednagar, faced elephants in Maamba, and has witnessed ten total solar eclipses. He's trying to settle down as a science fiction writer.

He's had over sixty short stories published, was part of the Interzone editorial team and edited Shine-an anthology of optimistic SF for Solaris Books. He's blogging about, well, almost anything including consciousness on his substack The Divergent Panorama: https://jetse.substack.com .