Michael J. Daley has enjoyed a lifelong love of science, spaceships, and science fiction. He writes his stories on a solar-powered laptop in a 5-foot-by-5-foot square tower room. This keeps him well acquainted with the cramped conditions in spaceships and space stations! He is hard at work on a sequel to Space Station Rat (Holiday House, 2005) to be called Rat Trap and is planning another book detailing Stewart’s ongoing adventures with Val Thorsten, the stars of his second sci-fi novel, Shanghaied to the Moon (Putnam, 2007). Space Station Rat has been nominated to the kid-chosen reading prizes in the states of Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Oklahoma. Michael keeps his hand in renewable energy education by conducting Pizza Box Solar Oven building workshops so kids can cook their own solar s’mores. When not traveling the stars, Michael lives in Westminster, Vermont, with his wife, children’s author Jessie Haas.