I’m a book author and journalist, a former Silicon Valley tech writer and medical/science writer in a research group at UC San Francisco. My degrees are in English and cell biology. I’m author of Crazy Money (Random House 1980) a memoir of Alaska in the 1970's, and I'm Still Here (Rolling Circle Press 2016) a novel. My reportage, essays and fiction have appeared in the MacMillan Nature journals (Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology), Threepenny Review, The Berkeley Monthly, The New York Times (op-ed), East Bay Express, Catamaran Literary, and others. More at https://www.pwickware.com.