Stefi Weisburd is the author of The Wind-Up Gods (Black Lawrence Press, 2008) which won the St. Lawrence Book Award and a collection of poems for children, Barefoot (Wordsong, 2008).  Winner of  The Nation/Discovery Prize in 2002, her poetry has appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review,

Weisburd studied physics at the University of California at Berkeley and at Stanford University.  She has been an analyst for Congress, an editor at Science News magazine and an AAAS fellow at Business Week. Currently she lives with her family in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she works as an outreach coordinator for a nanoscience program at the University of New Mexico.