Hannah Blau is a Research Software Engineer at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine (Farmington, CT), working on projects in computational biology. She earned the B.A. in French from Yale University, M.S.E. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Hannah gained international experience at the Artificial Intelligence Center of the Bull Corporation (Louveciennes, France) and in the Machine Learning Group of the Daimler-Benz Research Centre (Ulm, Germany). She also worked as a Research Scientist in the Automated Reasoning Group at the Honeywell Technology Center (Minneapolis, MN). Hannah has been a selfless listener since her college days, when friends would seek her out to discuss their paper topics. Her transition from literature to science made her alert to patterns of communication surrounding intellectual creativity.