

-AWARD WINNING AUTHOR-
J.D. CORTESE

ABOUT ME
J. D. (Jorge) Cortese is a scientist, educator by training, and writer out of a passion for communication. He has written regularly for a widely-read scientific newspaper—The Scientist—and served as at-large editor for educational magazines and large publishing houses. Winner of awards for science and teaching, he also received the prestigious award of The Writers’ Workshop of Asheville for literary fiction.
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After extensively pinning a world map, he and his itinerant wife have found a home in North Carolina’s Durham. His family has had a deep connection to New York, a city he misses as much as Buenos Aires, Shanghai, and Paris. All these places keep appearing in the dream worlds of his stories, in the present as well as in distant futures.