Pippa Storey grew up in New Zealand and received a doctorate in quantum physics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in France. She is now a Research Associate Professor of Radiology at the New York University School of Medicine, where she develops techniques for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Her personal webpage https://sites.google.com/view/pippastorey contains links to some of her other poetry and stories, as well as videos and MRI-based digital artwork.