Cameron Roberson, who writes under the pen name Rob Cameron, is a New York City public school teacher, linguist, and writer. He is also lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers and founder of Constellations Mentorship for the Octavia Project. He's been a workshop leader at the National Council for Teachers of English Annual Conference, guest author at the Dartmouth College Speculative Fiction Project, and guest lecturer at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. His poetry, stories, and essays can be found in, among other places, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Foreign Policy Magazine, Tor.com, Solarpunk Magazine, Apex, Clockwork Phoenix Five, FIYAH, and forthcoming in Lightspeed Magazine. Daydreamer, his debut middle grade novel, was a finalist for the Andre Norton, the Nebula award for middle grade and YA