Vonda Neel McIntyre (August 28, 1948 – April 1, 2019) was an American science fiction writer and biologist. She was the author of ‛The Moon and the Sun’, as well as a number of ‘Star Trek’ books and other original novels. She also wrote short stories and poems, and was a contributor to the blog Book View Cafe. She passed away on April 1, 2019, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.