Leonard Richardson is a programmer and author. Previously, Richardson was the Software Architect at The New York Public Library. He has also worked as a software engineer. Richardson's work has appeared in Etherea, Strange Horizons, Analog, and Clarkesworld, and has been collected in anthologies. His first novel, "Constellation Games," was published in 2012. His second novel, "Situation Normal," was published in 2020. He has also published nonfiction books about programming. Richardson received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California Los Angeles.