Freelance journalist and science fiction writer
I’m a seasoned journalist with a background in biochemistry and molecular biology and a speculative fiction writer. My news stories and features have appeared everywhere from scientific journals like Nature Biotechnology to local news outlets and public radio. I’ve published fiction in magazines like Analog, Odyssey, and Nature, as well as several anthologies.
Select nonfiction
- Potato Pests, Nature Biotechnology, May 18, 2026
- Going Non-Viral: Gene Delivery Enters Its Translation Era, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, May 1, 2026
- STEMI-DTU: Is LV Unloading Beneficial in STEMI Without Shock? Medscape, April 20, 2026
- The Challenge Of Measuring Almost Nothing: HER2 Testing Enters Ultralow Era, In Vivo, Jan 14, 2026
- First Ascent Expands Access to Functional Precision Medicine Testing After Promising Clinical Results, Precision Medicine Online, Precision Medicine Online, Nov. 4, 2025
- After PARP Inhibitors, What Will Be the Next Precision Medicine Advance in Ovarian Cancer? Precision Medicine Online, May 29, 2025
- Nearly every person in Iran seems to have had covid-19 at least once, New Scientist, October 19, 2021
- How Michigan hospitals and businesses try to keep workers happy, healthy, Bridge Michigan, March 9, 2020
- Michigan lawmakers vote to limit civil asset forfeiture, Michigan Public WUOM, February 28, 2019 [radio feature]
Select Fiction
- The North Revena Ladies’ Literary Society, The Year’s Best SF 18 edited by David G. Hartwell, Macmillan, 2013
- Titanium Soul, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2012
- The Doctrine of Noncontact, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2005
- Midnight on Tabula, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2004
- The Charge-Up Man, Futures from Nature: 100 Speculative Fictions, Tor, 2007
- The Apprentice, Heroes in Training edited by Martin H. Greenburg and Jim C. Hines, DAW Books, 2007
- Improving Slay Times in the Common Dragon, Odyssey, 1997
Catherine Shaffer 