Hi, I'm Katie. I'm the author and illustrator of Beatrice the Biologist. I'm a former high school biology teacher who simply loves to talk, write, and read about science.I live in Los Angeles with my husband and a guinea pig named Ziggy. I write for a university engineering school's office of communications, I freelance for a few educational publishers, and I blog at Symbiartic over at Scientific American.I also designed a science-ish iPhone/iPad game called Amoeboid, along with the dynamic duo at Tip Tok.