Lena Nguyen is a senior with Arizona State University’s Barrett, the Honors College and is pursuing two degrees: one in English: Creative Writing and the other in Political Science. She is currently working on her honors thesis, a novel-length science fiction manuscript, and will have a short story published next year in the book Recreating Life from Life: Science Fiction and Biotechnology by Dr. Rosalyn Berne. Lena recently returned from studying abroad in Italy and Greece and has studied at Stanford, Brown, and Harvard University. She hopes to bring her love of science fiction to an MFA program next year.