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-## SHORT BIO (50 words)
-Elena Vasquez plunges readers into oceanic terror in *Echoes of the Deep*, her thriller where a biologist decoding abyssal sonar signals awakens an ancient predator. With a PhD in oceanography from Scripps, she fuses hard science with pulse-pounding suspense. She plots her next dive from San Diego's shores.
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+## SHORT BIO (50 words)
+Maren Oceansong spent twelve years hauling nets on crab boats before translating the language of tides into fiction. Her novel *When the Tides Forget Their Names* follows a marine biologist decoding her mother's field journals among the migrating firefly squid of Toyama Bay. She lives in a converted boathouse on Puget Sound, where she is currently documenting the disappearance of kelp forests.
 
 ## MEDIUM BIO (150 words)
-Elena Vasquez, PhD in oceanography, brings the Mariana Trench's shadows to life in *Echoes of the Deep*, a thriller tracking a biologist's discovery of sonar-mapped ruins harboring a prehistoric leviathan. After years publishing peer-reviewed papers on deep-sea acoustics, Vasquez pivoted to fiction, channeling her submersible expeditions into stories that grip like a riptide. A daughter of Mexican fishermen, she once spent months at sea logging whale migrations, honing an ear for the ocean's hidden languages. Her debut marries empirical rigor with raw fear, earning nods from marine scientists and thriller fans alike. Elena lives in San Diego with her rescue kelpie, mapping plots as intricate as hydrothermal vents. She's at work on a sequel plumbing Pacific fault lines.
+Maren Oceansong's work emerges from the intersection of manual labor and marine science—twelve seasons on Bering Sea crab boats taught her to read water the way others read weather. Her novel *When the Tides Forget Their Names* mines that history through the story of Dr. Lila Voss, a biologist studying bioluminescent plankton off the Washington coast while unraveling her late mother's encoded research into the mass mortality events of the Misaki firefly squid. The book traces how scientific observation becomes inheritance, and how grief migrates through marine ecosystems.
 
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+Oceansong holds a degree in Oceanography from the University of Washington but learned her trade in the galley of the F/V Stormbird. She has written for *Harper's* and *The Georgia Review*. She divides her time between a converted boathouse on Puget Sound and research vessels in the North Pacific, where she is currently documenting the rapid disappearance of bull kelp forests for her next project.
 
 ## LONG BIO (300 words)
-Elena Vasquez grew up knee-deep in the Sea of Cortez, where her father's fishing trawler became her first classroom in the ocean's enigmas. Hauling nets by dawn, she learned to read currents and decipher the calls of humpback whales migrating past Baja. That salt-crusted childhood propelled her to Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she earned a PhD studying deep-sea acoustics—deploying hydrophones into trenches blacker than night, capturing echoes of creatures unknown to science. Her non-fiction papers on abyssal soundscapes filled journals, but the stories they evoked demanded more: narratives that swam beyond data points.
+Maren Oceansong learned to write during the fifteen-minute breaks between crab strings on the Bering Sea, filling waterproof notebooks with observations of light on water. Those early fragments—part navigation log, part meditation on isolation—eventually became the foundation for *When the Tides Forget Their Names*, a novel that interrogates how scientific knowledge passes between generations of women working at the margins of respectable academia.
 
-In *Echoes of the Deep*, Vasquez unleashes that compulsion. A marine biologist intercepts anomalous sonar pings from the Mariana Trench—ruins etched by an extinct civilization, stirring a colossal predator long dormant. What starts as a research dive spirals into a fight for humanity's surface world, blending Vasquez's expertise in pressure-wave physics with visceral horror. Readers feel the crush of 36,000 feet, the bioluminescent flicker of unseen eyes.
+The book follows Dr. Lila Voss, a marine biologist stationed at a research outpost in the San Juan Islands, as she attempts to complete her late mother's study of the Toyama Bay firefly squid migration while confronting the coded grief hidden in decades of field journals. Oceansong draws from her own twelve seasons as a deckhand on commercial fishing vessels, particularly the specific physics of bioluminescence that turns nighttime hauls into underwater constellations. The novel asks what we inherit when we inherit data—whether observation can substitute for intimacy, and if understanding an ecosystem's collapse can help us navigate our own.
 
-Influenced by Rachel Carson's lyricism and Peter Benchley's jaws-clenched realism, Vasquez obsesses over thresholds—the thin membrane between discovery and doom, silence and scream. Her thematic north: the sea's indifference to our maps. No stranger to peril, she's logged 500 hours in submersibles, once evading a rogue current off Guam.
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-Now based in San Diego, where she surfs the same swells her ancestors navigated, Vasquez teaches ocean literacy workshops and mentors young divers. *Echoes of the Deep* marks her fiction launch, but she's already scouting the next abyss: a sequel tracing seismic whispers along the Cascadia fault, where land and sea collide in cataclysm. With a kelpie at her feet and a whiteboard of bathymetric charts nearby, she writes to remind us: the deep keeps its secrets close, but they always rise.
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+Oceansong holds a degree in Oceanography from the University of Washington, though she credits her education to the captains who taught her to read tide tables and the marine biologists who shared their midnight watches. Her essays on labor and ecology have appeared in *Harper's*, *The Georgia Review*, and *Pacific Standard*. She has been a resident at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and currently splits her time between a converted boathouse on Puget Sound—heated by a wood stove from her first vessel—and the research boats she crews during spawning season. She is at work on a narrative nonfiction project tracking the collapse of bull kelp forests along the North American coast.
 
 ## FIRST-PERSON "ABOUT ME" (100 words)
-I write to drag the ocean's mysteries onto the page—those sonar ghosts I chased for years as an oceanographer. In *Echoes of the Deep*, my biologist heroine decodes trench pings that summon something ancient and hungry. Yeah, it's thrilling, but it's rooted in real dives where the water presses like a vice. Born to Baja fishermen, I've surfed swells and subbed to hell's floor. San Diego's my harbor now, with my kelpie Luna as co-pilot. Pull up a tide pool; let's talk depths.
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+I write about the moments when water becomes a text you have to learn to read urgently. For twelve years I translated the Bering Sea into crab pots and weather reports; now I translate it into novels about women who study light and loss. My first book, *When the Tides Forget Their Names*, follows a marine biologist sorting through her mother's field journals while chasing the glow of spawning squid. When I'm not writing, I'm usually restoring the wood stove in my boathouse or patching nets. The line between my work and my life dissolved a long time ago—I'm not sure I mind.
 
 ## SOCIAL HANDLE BIOS
-- **Twitter/X (160 chars):** Oceanographer-turned-thriller-writer. *Echoes of the Deep*: sonar secrets wake a trench beast. PhD dives meet page-turners. Surfing San Diego rips. @ElenaVasquezDeep #OceanThriller (118 chars)
 
-- **Instagram (150 chars):**
-Elena Vasquez  
-Diving into thrillers 🪸  
-*Echoes of the Deep*—biologist vs. ancient abyss predator  
-Ex-oceanographer, eternal wave chaser 🌊  
-San Diego | Sequel brewing 👀  
-@elenavasquezdeep  
+**Twitter/X (160 chars)**
+Former crab boat deckhand. Writes about bioluminescence & inherited grief. Author of WHEN THE TIDES FORGET THEIR NAMES. Studying kelp loss. Puget Sound.
 
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-- **LinkedIn (220 chars):** Elena Vasquez, PhD Oceanography (Scripps). Author of *Echoes of the Deep*, a techno-thriller where sonar-discovered ruins unleash a deep-sea threat. Former researcher (500+ sub hours); now blending science expertise with fiction. Teaching ocean literacy | San Diego-based. Open to keynotes on marine mysteries.
+**Instagram (150 chars)**
+Crab boats → novels 🦑  
+Author of WHEN THE TIDES FORGET THEIR NAMES  
+Writing about firefly squid & kelp forests from a wood-heated boathouse  
+Pacific Northwest
 
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+**LinkedIn (220 chars)**
+Marine geologist turned novelist. Twelve years commercial fishing. Author of WHEN THE TIDES FORGET THEIR NAMES (bioluminescence & maternal legacy). Essays in Harper's. Currently documenting kelp forest collapse. Puget Sound-based.
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 ## AUTHOR PHOTO CAPTION
-Elena Vasquez stands amid crashing San Diego waves, plotting oceanic horrors for *Echoes of the Deep*.
+Maren Oceansong holds a strand of bull kelp on the deck of her Puget Sound boathouse.
 
 ## MEDIA CONTACT BLOCK
-Elena Vasquez  
-elena@vasquezdeep.com  
-(619) 555-0198  
-www.elenavasquez.com  
-Twitter/X: @ElenaVasquezDeep | Instagram: @elenavasquezdeep | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elenavasquez
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+**Maren Oceansong**  
+Email: maren@oceansongprojects.com  
+Phone: (206) 555-0147  
+Website: www.marenoceansong.com  
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+**Social Handles:**  
+X/Twitter: @maren_oceansong  
+Instagram: @maren_oceansong  
+LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marenoceansong