Corry completed a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics at Harvard University in 2011. For her thesis she searched for rare decays of a heavy, unstable particles created by the Stanford Linear Accelerator and recorded by the BaBar detector. BaBar and future "B-physics" experiments seek to understand a phenomenon called CP Violation, which will help explain why the universe is composed predominately out of matter (where did all the antimatter go?).
Her Ph.D. research taught Corry that, as interesting as analyzing large datasets is, she prefers more people interaction in her days. She is currently investigating positions in industry, especially in the alternative energy/green tech sector, with an eye to program management.
In addition to her love of science and technology, Corry loves literature, and fills much of her free time writing science fiction and fantasy. Her military science fiction story "Shutdown" about a former ballet dancer turned elite military commando won 3rd place in the prestigious Writers of the Future competition in the 2nd quarter of 2011, and will be published in the upcoming Writers of the Future anthology, Vol. 28.
In addition to writing short stories, Corry is at work on a Steampunk novel. The novel--set in an alternate 1890s England in which the British Empire teeters on the brink of war with the Russio-Chinese Alliance--follows a young lady inventor, a British spy crippled by his past, and a handsome aristocrat on the edge of financial ruin.
In 2009, Corry graduated from Odyssey, The Fantasy Writing Workshop, an intense, six-week course run by writer and former editor Jeanne Cavelos. Corry is a member of the Fairwood Writers Group, a Seattle area writing group which also runs the writing workshop for Norwescon.
Corry holds a B.S.E. in Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado. She originally hails from that same state, and spent her primary school days in a suburb of Boulder before moving to small, touristy Buena Vista, CO. Her high school had less than 300 students, but she could see seven "fourteeners" (mountains over 14,000 feet high) from her bedroom window. Going hiking straight from her backyard spurred her love of the outdoors. Now, nothing wakes Corry's muse up better than a long walk.
Corry lives with her husband in Redmond, WA where you're likely to find her sitting on her back patio sipping tea and writing. She has also been known to frequent opera houses, the theatre, and science fiction conventions. While at Harvard, she won numerous teaching awards.
