Back to the series Morgan Nyberg grew up in farming country in southern British Columbia. After graduating from the University of British Columbia he worked as a laborer for a decade before finally settling into teaching. For most of the last 30 years he has lived abroad, teaching English as […]
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Back to the series October’s spotlight (marking the series’ one-year anniversary) 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, […]
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Back to the series From Barbara Kingsolver’s official site: “Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955, and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. At various times in her […]
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Back to the series When I first talked with author Brian Burt a couple years ago, we sat in on a SFF World panel about climate change in fiction, and I was surprised at the things we had in common: we both hail from Indiana (go Hoosiers!), still dream of […]
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Back to the series It’s hard to believe that we’re up to our tenth author spotlight in this series, but here we are, with an introduction to Jo Marshall, who spent seven years as a volunteer literacy tutor for elementary school students. In the D.C. area, from 1999 to 2006, […]
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Back to the series Updated note: John Atcheson passed away January 6, 2020. Please see Common Dreams for more. John Atcheson, a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Think Progress, and an environmental and political fiction author, wrote one of my favorite environmental novels, A Being Darkly Wise. The novel […]
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Back to the series Denver resident Peter Heller is a contributor to NPR, Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. He has written literary nonfiction and fiction–and he loves the outdoors, so his writing reflects his adventures, including in Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River, The Whale […]
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Back to the series This month we’ll look at Ali Smith, who is not a new author, but whose “Seasonal” quartet I just began reading. Smith is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. See a complete bibliography at Wikipedia. For the purposes of this article, I will focus on […]
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Back to the series In this portion of our climate change spotlight series, which began last October, we’ll look at Ursula K. Le Guin, a favorite author of mine since I was a young teenager, particularly after I read The Left Hand of Darkness for a class, and then began […]
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Back to the series Kim Stanley Robinson is an award-winning author of literary and science fiction; he is widely known for his realism in fiction since he bases his stories on modern scientific theories. He is known for carefully researching climate and other sciences while planning his stories. His academic […]
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Part IV. Authors Who Tackle Climate Change in Fiction – Emmi Itäranta Back to the series Finnish author Emmi Itäranta’s debut novel, Memory of Water, haunted me to no end. It was my favorite book in 2014, the year it was translated into English, and I later interviewed Emmi (see […]
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Back to the series In this ongoing series, we provide evidence that serious authors are tackling climate change in fiction. Essayist, editor, novelist, and critic Nathaniel Rich penned the novel Odds Against Tomorrow, which was published in 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Rich describes his novel as a […]
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Gary D. Robson is an American author from Red Lodge, Montana. He is best known for his children’s picture book series Who Pooped in the Park?, which teaches children about animal scat and tracks. The books have fictional characters who learn from each other as well as guides. The series […]
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Back to the series Popular author Margaret Atwood called climate change the “everything change.” Atwood’s novels are generally about the human experience, at times notably the female’s, but she also writes about this everything change. Her genre-busting books range from literary to speculative. Global warming occurs prominently in Atwood’s MaddAddam […]
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Back to the series It’s time to spotlight authors thinking and writing about global warming. Let’s start with Jeff VanderMeer, who tackles environmental issues in his novels. As a reader, I was so influenced by the Southern Reach Trilogy that it motivated me to read other authors and concepts described […]
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