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
Literature
The Greatest Story of the 21st Century
Last week’s most important news story – the biodiversity crisis that threatens our own existence – was buried by celebrity
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
An Interview with Artists Timo Aho & Pekka Niittyvirta
This month I have for you a two-person interview with Finnish artists Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta, who recently collaborated on an
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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
The Literary Method of Urban Design
Smothered in soaking tropical heat, I’ve been chasing my two-year-old as he runs through fields of strange flowers, treads around
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
Writer Elizabeth Rush Distills the Stories of Communities Affected by Sea Level Rise
Author Elizabeth Rush talks about her award-winning book Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Elizabeth spent time in nine
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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