Joe Bergeron is an award-winning artist and a Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists. He lives in upstate New York, where he often peers between the clouds to see the stars beyond. He has extensive experience in astronomy education and outreach, having worked in planetariums and devoted months to sharing the night sky with visitors to dark sky national parks such as Grand Canyon, Zion, and Capitol Reef. He has also written a series of science fiction novels set in the Endurian Universe.