Kirsten Beyer was a cocreator of the acclaimed hit Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, where she served as writer and supervising producer for season one and a coexecutive producer for season two. She has also written and produced Star Trek: Discovery and is currently a coexecutive producer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the last ten Star Trek: Voyager novels, including 2020โs To Lose the Earth, for which she was the narrator of the audiobook edition. She contributed the short story โIsaboโs Shirtโ to Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores Anthology. In 2006, Kirsten appeared at Hollywoodโs Unknown Theater in their productions of Johnson Over Jordan, This Old Planet, and Harold Pinterโs The Hothouse, which the Los Angeles Times called โunmissable.โ She lives in Los Angeles.