[2][3] Palmer has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
[1] She lives in Massachusetts, where she works as a system administrator at Smith College.
[5] She cites John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, and Martha Wells as some of her influences and describes her primary genre as "space opera-style science fiction".
[6] Her first full-length novel, Finder, a thriller about an interstellar repo man, was published by DAW Books in 2019.
[4][7] She has since published three more novels in that series: Driving the Deep, The Scavenger Door, and Ghostdrift.