Stephen Ames Berry

Climate migrant Stephen Ames Berry’s most recent book is his gritty memoir, “This is our Place!” Climate Migration and the Gangs of the Rust Belt. It chronicles he and his wife Linda’s ten-year war of survival against the drug and child trafficking gangs of their Upstate New York village. Berry is also the author of four science fiction novels first published by Ace/Berkley and Tor/Macmillan, and of The Eldridge Conspiracy, a tale spun from his time at the Pentagon and the legend of the Navy’s World War II ship invisibility project, the Philadelphia Experiment. A magna cum laude graduate of Boston University, Berry was a systems analyst and data architect at the Pentagon and Harvard University. He’s a veteran of the US Army Intelligence, which sponsored his three-year stint in Tokyo. Post-Harvard, Berry taught and mentored wayward youth in Sarasota, Florida, inspiration for his novella Marvey’s Monkeys. Berry enjoys sitting on his patio along his now-quiet street, and watching the colorful Federal surveillance drones patrol the night skies.