Julia Benson-Slaughter has so many (figurative) hats that it’s hard for her to remember which she’s wearing at any given time. Maker, writer, tech geek, storyteller, pyromaniac, drummer, research guru, and cat slave are the ones she wears most frequently since retiring from teaching computer science at the local community college. She and fellow author Michael Aurelius have written eight books in the Chronicles of the Multiverse world (as of January 2025), with at least five more underway. As the purple-haired creator of Noctua Designs’ eclectic jewelry, she caters to the magpie in all of us. She's also prone to shenanigans and fluent in sarcasm.