Sally Caves

Sally Caves is the pen name of Sarah Higley, a conlanger from the University of Rochester and creator of Teonaht.

During Caves' Boomer childhood, she made up a race of fictional winged cats named the Teonim, inspired by her first kitten. The Teonim eventually became human, but to this day have feline deities. In 1962, as a small child, Caves first started creating rules for the Teonaht language, and has stuck with it her whole life.

Caves has also written for Star Trek, wherefor she created the character of Reginald Barclay.