S. R. Algernon has balanced fiction writing, scholarly writing and teaching for the past several years. He studied creative writing as an undergraduate. For a few short weeks, he was a physics major before switching to biology. After graduation, he went on to teach English in Japan and eventually receive a Ph.D. in Psychology. He has been a member of the Critters online writing workshop since 2009. He currently lives, writes and teaches in Singapore. His research interests over the years have included consciousness, visual perception, human-computer interaction, marketing and comparative psychology. Writing interests include comparative xenobiology, exploration of exoplanets, genetic engineering, post-singularity society and post-scarcity economics.