Wild Authors: Marissa Slaven
I talked with Marissa earlier this year after publishing her young adult novel Code Blue (Moon Willow Press, 2018) and thought this
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Wild Authors: Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler, an African American science fiction writer, was born in 1947 and died in 2006. A Hugo and Nebula
Wild Authors: Marian Womack
In this spotlight, I look at how ecology intersects with weird fiction. This has been an interest of mine, but
Wild Authors: Kathleen Dean Moore
This month’s feature on authors who explore global warming in fiction covers Kathleen Dean Moore. Moore’s background in environmental activism
Wild Authors: Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of six books of fiction: Vanishing Acts, her new novel; Wild Things, linked stories, winner of the CNY 2017
Wild Authors: Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi’s novels tell stories about human impacts on the environment – and, in turn, the results of these impacts
Wild Authors: Clara Hume
After 15 months of writing this series about other authors tackling climate change in fiction, I’m going off the path
Wild Authors: Morgan Nyberg
Morgan Nyberg grew up in farming country in southern British Columbia. After graduating from the University of British Columbia he worked
Wild Authors: Susan M. Gaines
This month’s spotlight is on Susan M. Gaines, who wrote Carbon Dreams, her first published novel – and she has just completed another. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, such as the North American Review and the Missouri Review, and in the anthologies Best of the West V and Sacred Ground: Writings About Home. She studied chemistry and oceanography before a love for literature lured her away from the lab, and her book, Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History (Oxford University Press, 2009), employs narrative and literary prose to report on research in organic geochemistry. Currently she holds a post as writer-in-residence and co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen in Germany. Despite having spent much of her adult life abroad and found homes in Uruguay and Germany, Gaines regularly returns to her roots in northern California. Carbon Dreams was published in 2001 and is set in the 1980s; it is
Wild Authors: Barbara Kingsolver
From Barbara Kingsolver’s official site: “Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955, and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology