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Warning: On February 21, I learned that eco-fiction (dot com) was bought out by someone looking to sell the domain. That’s fine. I let the domain lapse in 2023, but for years before that, I had still owned the domain and forwarded it to dragonfly.eco. I felt enough years had […]

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Indie Corner – Anne M. Smith-Nochasak

Back to the Indie Corner series Intro During the summer and autumn, we often visit Wolfville’s Farmers’ Market in the lush Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. During one of those trips this past year, I was amazed to meet the most interesting author, Anne Smith-Nochasak. We talked for a long […]

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Turning the Tide

Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation Spotlight Series Children’s bookshelf | YA/teen bookshelf | Book reviews | Spotlights | Resources and teacher links | Games | Films News: It’s been a while since I’ve had an update for Turning the Tide. Kimberly Christensen has been a dear colleague who has […]

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Help Support Dragonfly.eco

Exciting news: I’m publicly announcing my newest writing project, a novella with the working title of The Day Sylva Calhoun Washed Away, under my pen name Clara Hume. I don’t expect this to be published until 2027, but thanks to writing sprints and encouragement from the Rewilding Our Stories Discord, […]

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Around the World with “Rewilding our Stories”

Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series I’m so excited to share with our readers some of the book projects the Rewilding our Stories Discord is doing. The Discord community began just over five years ago. Looking back, I wonder if it was Covid that prompted the idea […]

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Indie Corner – Michelle Schuman

Back to the Indie Corner series It was cool to hear from author Michelle (M.E.) Schuman, whose The Rare Earth series’ part 2, The Catalyst, just came out this fall. Michelle is the award-winning author of The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun and the […]

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Spotlight – The Storm, Arif Anwar

Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book     Rebooted for November 2025 At once grounded in history and fantastically imaginative, Arif Anwar’s The Storm (Washington Square Press, 2021) “moves us deftly through time and across borders, beautifully illustrating the strange intersections we call fate, […]

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Indie Corner – Micah Thorp, Aegolius Creek

Back to the Indie Corner series Micah Thorp is a physician and writer in Portland, Oregon. His first novel, Uncle Joe’s Muse, won a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award and a Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. A sequel, Uncle Joe’s Senpai, was published in 2023. His writing […]

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P. Finian Reilly, Ice’s End

Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series I’m thrilled to talk with P. Finian Reilly about his new novel Ice’s End. It’s only the second time the world eco-fiction series has traveled to Antarctica—the first being a conversation with Ilija Trojanow about his novel Lamentations of Zeno. About […]

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Indie Corner – Uplift, Jessica Mann

Jessica Mann’s novel Uplift (2024) is a work of realistic animal fiction, told entirely from the point of view of wild birds, animals, and an ancient tree. The book has won national awards and been featured in Psychology Today and The Nature Conservancy. When her high mountain wilderness is threatened […]

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Eco-Games

Thanks to so many wonderful game suggestions (primarily video games, but not all) from the Rewilding Our Stories community, we have a new eco-gaming section here at Dragonfly. While some games lean toward environmental lessons and strategize ways to reconstruct ecological systems, others beautifully immerse the player into an explorative […]

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Spotlight – Anh Do, Wolf Girl Series

Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Series Into the Wild (HarperCollins) is the first book in the Wolf Girl series, a thrilling middle-grade trilogy about a young girl, separated from her family, who learns how to survive with only her new canine found family by […]

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Indie Corner – Todd Medema

Todd Medema’s How to Surf a Hurricane (August 2025) is a story of hope and adapting to climate change—hidden inside an action-packed heist on the high seas. Inspired by the new genre of solarpunk, it tells the story of Moro, an ex-corporate heir, and a globe-spanning ensemble cast fighting for […]

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Dheepa R. Maturi, 108: An Eco-Thriller

Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book 108: An Eco-Thriller (Girl Friday Productions, June 2025): While working the night shift at a San Francisco news agency, Bayla Jeevan has a shocking out-of-body experience. Her consciousness is transported deep into an Indian forest, where she witnesses a […]

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Interview with Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water

Originally published July 8, 2014. Rebooted July 17, 2025 into the World Eco-fiction Series. Updated: This novel is now a movie. I want to thank Emmi for this wonderful interview. My first pleasure was reading her book, Memory of Water. The novel takes place in the future after climate change […]

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