Sybil Prince Nelson

Dr. Sybil Prince Nelson graduated from Washington and Lee University in 2001 with a degree in Mathematics and Music. During her time there, she completed a research project entitled "Classifying Clawless Steinhaus Graphs", completed music senior thesis by composing a concert, and performed frequently in the dance department in ballet, tap and hip-hop. Several years and two children later, Prince Nelson completed her master's degree in pure mathematics at the College of Charleston with her thesis "Dynamics of Nearly Circular Vortex Filaments." Immediately after, she attended the Medical University of South Carolina to earn her PhD in Biostatistics with the thesis "Classifying and Predicting Disease Outcome from Continuous and Binary Predictors and their Interactions."

After completing her PhD, Prince Nelson was a Visiting Professor at The Citadel in South Carolina and she is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and core faculty of the Data Science department at her Alma Mater Washington and Lee.

During all this time, Dr. Prince Nelson has never forgotten one of her original loves: writing. As Sybil Nelson, she has published over a dozen science fiction novels for children and adults including her popular middle grade series Priscilla the Great and books from her recent "Jane Austen in Space" collection with titles such as Pride and Prejudice in Space. Under her pen name, Leslie DuBois, she has published over a dozen Historical Fiction and Interracial Romance novels that often deal with serious social issues such as with her novel Shadows of St. Louis which centers on the 1917 race riots in East St. Louis, IL.