Catherine Asaro

Catherine Asaro genuinely astonishes me. A Harvard-trained physicist who won the Nebula Award twice for her fiction, while also working as a dancer and singer, she seems to be living several lifetimes at once. Her sweeping space epics, like the Saga of the Skolian Empire, carry a rare authority precisely because real scientific understanding underpins the wonder, letting imagination and rigor dissolve into one another. There is something fitting in her Scorpio intensity, a hidden, relentless curiosity that you can feel in the texture of the work. To hold science and art, motion and language, all in one career strikes me as a kind of cultural treasure.

Name (English)

Catherine Asaro

Name (Japanese)

キャサリン・アサロ

Reading

きゃさりん・あさろ

Born

November 6, 1955 (age 70)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Goat

Origin

Oakland, California, United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / science fiction writer / physicist / dancer

High school

John F. Kennedy High School

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novel
• 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novella

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.catherineasaro.net/
• Xhttps://x.com/Catherine_Asaro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AD

Tags

• California
• writer
• novelist
• science fiction writer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.