Trained as an archaeologist and anthropologist, Annalisa Bolin has lived and worked in Rwanda, northern Europe, the US Virgin Islands, and elsewhere. After receiving a PhD from Stanford University and undertaking postdoctoral fellowships at Linnaeus University (Sweden) and Aarhus University (Denmark), she is a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bolin’s nonfiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Longreads, Sapiens Magazine, Tampa Review, and other venues.