Elizabeth Heider is a PhD physicist whose most recent jobs include work for Microsoft’s AI4Science Research Program and the European Space Agency’s Human Spaceflight Program. Her short fiction has earned recognition from the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Literary Awards and the New Century Writer Awards, as well as writing and research for military and government agencies where she worked as a scientist. She lived and worked in Naples Italy for several years, deploying as a civilian analyst aboard U.S. and European naval ships. She’s based in The Hague.
Originally from Utah, Elizabeth is the second of six children, all unrepentant bibliophiles. She’s written stories for as long as she can remember.
Elizabeth holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Utah and a MS and PhD in physics from Tufts University.
Elizabeth’s short fiction has earned recognition in the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Literary Awards and the New Century Writer Awards. Her writing credits include a play produced at the University of Utah, numerous research papers (including an article co-written with ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet), a chemistry patent, and wargames written for the Navy and other US government agencies. Her original research and writing about Navy programs in Africa were used in US Department of State Congressional testimony. She authored a comic series developed by the European Space Agency, and for the better part of a decade, her science writings were regularly read by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Elizabeth currently lives in The Hague, where she bicycles across the dunes, makes wine from the grapes in her garden, and skates on frozen canals.
Books in order of publication:
May the Wolf Die – 2024
Children of the Savage City – 2025
Oak Lawn Library Friends 