page_title: Joan Slonczewski
hierarchical_section_title: Joan Slonczewski
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Joan Slonczewski with students
context_page_description: Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Her books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean and The Highest Frontier. With John W. Foster she coauthors the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science. She explores her ideas of biology, politics, and artificial intelligence at her blog Ultraphyte.
context_section_description: Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Her books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean (1987) and The Highest Frontier (2011). With John W. Foster she coauthors the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science (W. W. Norton). She explores her ideas of biology, politics, and artificial intelligence at her blog Ultraphyte.
caption: Slonczewski with students in 2015
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