T.S. Beier is a science fiction aficionado. Her first published novel, What Branches Grow, is her love letter to the post-apocalyptic genre. It was also the focus of her Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing and a Top 5 Category Finalist in the 2020 Kindle Book Awards. It is also a current entrant in the inaugural Self-Published Science-Fiction Competition. Her second novel, Escaping First Contact, is the first in The Burnt Ship trilogy (space opera). T.S. lives in Ontario, Canada, with her partner, daughters, and two dogs. She loves ghost towns and the ruins of industry. Tina is a writer for PostApocalypticMedia.com