Rocco Samuele is a writer and engineer living in Los Angeles. He has developed exoplanet observation technologies for sounding rocket experiments and future space telescopes. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan’s Zell Writers’ Program and an MS in Astrophysics from Ohio University’s Astrophysical Institute. His writing has been published in Guernica, The Astrophysical Journal, Fiction Writers Review, and Opium Magazine, among others.