23 Facts About Catherine Asaro

Catherine Ann Asaro was born on November 6,1955 and is an American science fiction and fantasy author, singer and teacher.

Catherine Asaro is best known for her books about the Ruby Dynasty, called the Saga of the Skolian Empire.

Catherine Asaro was born on November 6,1955, in Oakland, California, and grew up in El Cerrito, California.

Catherine Asaro attended Kennedy High School in Richmond, California, as part of the Richmond Voluntary Integration Plan.

Catherine Asaro was director of the Chesapeake Math Program and has coached various nationally ranked teams with home, private, and public school students, in particular the Chesapeake teams for national tournaments such as the Princeton and Harvard-MIT competitions.

Catherine Asaro taught a gifted program in math and science at the Yang Academy in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Catherine Asaro's students have placed at the top levels in numerous national competitions, including the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad and the United States of America Mathematical Talent Search.

Catherine Asaro is a member of SIGMA, a think tank of speculative writers that advises the government as to future trends affecting national security.

Catherine Asaro is known for her advocacy of bringing girls and women into STEM fields and for increased diversity, and for challenging gender roles and literary expectations in her fiction.

Catherine Asaro has been an invited speaker or visiting professor for various institutions, including the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard, Georgetown University, NASA, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Global Competitiveness Forum in Saudi Arabia, the New Zealand National ConText Writer's program, the University of Maryland, the US Naval Academy, and many other institutions.

Catherine Asaro founded and served as artistic director and a principal dancer for two dance groups at Harvard: The Mainly Jazz Dance Company and the Harvard University Ballet.

Catherine Asaro has completed two terms as president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and during her tenure established the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Catherine Asaro's husband was John Kendall Cannizzo, an astrophysicist at NASA.

Catherine Asaro is the daughter of Frank Asaro, the nuclear chemist who discovered the iridium anomaly that led the team of Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel to postulate that an asteroid collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and caused mass extinctions, including the demise of the dinosaurs.

Catherine Asaro is known as a hard science fiction writer for the scientific depth of her work.

Catherine Asaro is noted for including sophisticated mathematical concepts in her fiction.

The method of space travel used in the Skolian Empire books comes from a paper Catherine Asaro wrote on complex variables and special relativity that appeared in the American Journal of Physics.

Catherine Asaro's novel The Quantum Rose is an allegory to quantum scattering theory and is dedicated to her doctoral advisors and mentors in the subject, Alex Dalgarno, Kate Kirby, and Eric J Heller.

In essays in the back of some of her novels, Catherine Asaro explains the mathematical and physics basis of the ideas used in the books, in particular Spherical Harmonic, The Quantum Rose, and The Moon's Shadow.

Ani wrote most of the music for the CD, and Catherine Asaro wrote most of the lyrics, as well as music for three songs.

Catherine Asaro, who did not know how to sing, took voice lessons in preparation for the recordings, and continues to train and perform.

Catherine Asaro has described how the collaboration inspired her work, as exemplified by the song "Emeralds", which she was not able to finish until she and Ani were in the studio recording his vocals.

In 2018, Catherine Asaro teamed up with author and songwriter Arlan Andrews to do the Celtic rock song "Ancient Ages".