Now residing in Arizona, Jacqueline Lichtenberg was born in New York, grew up in California, was married in Israel while working as a Chemist at Israel Mining Industries, and raised her children in New York.

She now has a daughter in the Air Force, and another daughter who changed careers from computer programmer to Counselor. Both are married, - so far only one granddaughter.

Jacqueline has always had far ranging interests and made hobbies of everything from Archery to Zen. For more than 20 years she has been practicing and teaching Tarot and Astrology.

But her main life's focus has always been on science fiction and fantasy. Realizing that Star Trek was the first real sf on TV, she launched a five year research project on why fans wouldn't let that show die. That project became the Bantam Paperback Star Trek Lives! She founded Star Trek Welcommittee to answer the fan mail from that book.

The fandom generated by Sime~Gen has replicated in miniature the lifecycle of Star Trek fandom, complete with arts and crafts, five print fanzines, several online publications, and a fandom that kept on creating Sime~Gen fiction even while no novels were in print.

Jacqueline Lichtenberg also uses this pseudonym: Daniel R. Kerns.

Biography provided by the author, February 2003.