* An average of more than 90,000 people are reported missing in the United States at any given time, more than a third of which are children, meaning that many Americans know the loss and/or the fear of having one’s spouse or child disappear and never return. (USA Today)

* Scientific innovations such as cloning, genetic engineering, and three-dimensional printing are becoming increasingly possible in the modern world, and as such, debates about the moral implications of these advancements are coming to the forefront of the public’s attention (headlining articles in The New York Times about the ethics of editing genes in human embryos and the potential of using the protein Crispr-Cas9 to alter adults’ genes, for example).

* Authors has confirmed endorsements from authors Brian Evenson (Immobility), Ivy Pochoda (Visitation Street), and Dathan Auerbach (Penpal)

* Author was a 2015 PEN Center Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction, giving her exposure and the chance to network with PEN Center’s 9,000 Twitter followers and almost 7,000 Facebook followers.

* This fall, the author will be a blogger for The MFA Years, which averages over 5,000 page views per month.