Donna S. Frelick has been a journalist, a Peace Corps Volunteer and an author of Star Trek fan fiction. She was an RWA® Golden Heart® Double Finalist in 2012 for the first two novels in her contemporary SFR Interstellar Rescue series, and an SFR Galaxy Award winner in 2016 and 2018 for the third and fourth books in the series. Unchained Memory: Interstellar Rescue Book 1 earned a Kirkus Recommended Review and recently was featured in the June 2024 Science Fiction and Fantasy issue of Kirkus Reviews.  Donna lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina with her husband, two dogs and two cats. When she’s not writing, she teaches taiji and qigong, and covers science, romance and the world around us in her weekly blog.