PJ Manney is the author of the bestselling and Philip K. Dick Award nominated Phoenix Horizon trilogy, (R)EVOLUTION, (ID)ENTITY, and (CON)SCIENCE. She is on the board of directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, futurist, media consultant and writer/producer for the Human Energy Project, and runs The New Mythos project. A former chairperson of Humanity Plus, she helped rebrand the organization, launch H+ Magazine and organize the first multi-org conference on futurist topics, Convergence ’08. She authored "Yucky Gets Yummy: How Speculative Fiction Creates Society"​ and "Empathy in the Time of Technology: How Storytelling is the Key to Empathy,"​ foundational works on the neuropsychology of empathy and media. She has presented her ideas to groups like the United Nations Association, National Geographic, the Producers and Directors Guilds of America, NASA-JPL, Huffington Post, The H+ Summit, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is a frequent guest on podcasts and webshows including StarTalk, Technically Human, The World Transformed, and Singularity.FM, and has had articles published in Writer's Digest, BoingBoing and Tor.com. She is also the first person to create and transfer a digital autograph for a novel verified by the blockchain. Manney consults with and speaks to companies and organizations about the future of technology and humanity.Manney graduated from Wesleyan University double majoring in Film and American Studies. A career spent in media, she worked in motion picture PR at Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures; story development for independent film production companies; and writing as Patricia Manney for the critically acclaimed hit TV shows Hercules — The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. She also co-founded Uncharted Entertainment, writing and/or creating many pilot scripts for television networks, including CBS, Fox, UPN, Discovery, ABC Family and Comedy Central. Manney lives in Southern California and is a dual citizen of the US and New Zealand. Visit www.pjmanney.com