Lissity is an Earthling. She's just visiting Mars with her family. Nariel comes from a proud tradition of Martian independence. The two form an unlikely friendship.
Lisa Rosinsky was selected as the 2016-2017 Associates of the Boston Public Library Writer-in-Residence. Once upon a time, she was half of a two-person traveling production of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. She has an MFA in poetry from Boston University and writes poems about love, God, and dinosaurs, which have been published in Measure, Prairie Schooner, 32 Poems, and other journals. Her debut novel is Inevitable and Only.