Syne Mitchell

Syne Mitchell
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
GenreScience fiction
Notable awardsCompton Crook Award - 2001
SpouseEric S. Nylund
Website
www.synemitchell.com

Syne Mitchell (born 1970 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American novelist in the science fiction genre.[1] She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and master's degree in physics. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to author Eric S. Nylund.[2] Her first science fiction novel was Murphy’s Gambit which won the Compton Crook Award in 2001.[3] Followed by science fiction novels Technogenesis in 2001, The Changeling Plague in 2003, End in Fire in 2005 and the first installment of the Deathless series, called The Last Mortal Man in 2006.

She wrote a how-to book, Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom: Discover the Full Potential of the Rigid-Heddle Loom, for Beginners and Beyond in 2015[4]

Working at Google, Mitchell was part of a team that produced explainer comics: "Smooth Sailing with Kubernetes" (2018) and "Learning Machine Learning" (2019)[5]

Mitchell has also published articles, short stories, an online magazine for handweavers (WeaveZine), and produced a monthly podcast (WeaveCast).

She has worked as a technical writer at Microsoft, Amazon, and Google.

  1. ^ Love, Cesar (7 September 2002). "Sci-Fi Women Want Brains, Brawn". Wired News. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
  2. ^ "about Eric – Eric Nylund". Retrieved 2021-06-26.
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  4. ^ "Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom". Storey Publishing. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  5. ^ "Learning Machine Learning | Cloud AI". Google Cloud. Retrieved 2021-06-26.