Sharri Bockheim Steen is a full-time mother and a part-time freelance medical writer for the pharmaceutical industry. She lives near Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and two children. Sharri earned her BS in biology from Calvin College and her PhD in molecular biology from Baylor College of Medicine and did a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University. When Sharri finds a spare minute, she jogs, reads, or writes. She kept a blog of her experiences with breast cancer at http://burnishingbrightens.blogspot.com/
