Forgotten Ground Regained
Contributor: Jamie Molaro
Dr. Jamie Molaro is a planetary scientist, artist, writer, and musician. Her scientific research explores the landscapes of rocky and icy worlds like asteroids, moons, and comets. She is a member of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to return a rock sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth, her contributions to which earned asteroid 30379 Molaro her namesake. Molaro’s scientific and creative pursuits are closely intertwined. Her visual art uses spacecraft data to explore science from a different perspective, and her outreach work organizing astronomy focused art exhibitions and teaching artist workshops has earned her the 2024 Carl Sagan Medal. Molaro’s writing combines her interest in cosmology with ancient culture by employing historical poetic forms to create fiction at an intersection between myth, magic, science, and history.
Her contributions to this site include a review of Mary Thaler's Ulfhildr. She also has an epic poem in Old Norse style ljoðaháttr, Skaldsspa, forthcoming from a small press. Details to be announced soon.
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