Ada Palmer is a professor in the history department of the
University of Chicago, specializing in Renaissance history and the
history of ideas. Her first nonfiction book, Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance, was published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. She is also a composer of folk and Renaissance-tinged a capella music, most of which she performs with the group Sassafrass. Her
personal site is at adapalmer.com, and she writes about history for a
popular audience at exurbe.com and about SF and fantasy-related matters
at Tor.com.
