Joelle Renstrom is a writer living in Somerville, MA. Her collection of essays, Closing the Book: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature, was published in August 2015. Joelle's first foray into science/tech writing was in 2011 with the launch of her blog Could This Happen?, which explores the relationship between science and science fiction and won a 2012 Somerville Arts Council fellowship and a 2013 Writers' Room of Boston Nonfiction fellowship. She has since received Somerville Arts Council fellowships in 2015 and 2018, as well as a journalist fellowship from the Gerontologist Society of America in 2019. Joelle’s work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Astrobiology, Slate, Aeon, The Guardian, The Washington Post, New Scientist, Popular Science, Undark, the Boston Globe, and others. She teaches writing and research at Boston University. Follow her on Twitter @couldthishappen.