Charlene D’Avanzo

I am a marine ecologist and I taught ecology and environmental science for 35 years at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. I am also an award-winning environmental educator and editor of several journals. My piece about environmental mysteries appeared in Sisters in Crime’s First Draft in April 2014. I am […]

Read More

In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation, Jennifer Ellis

Thanks to Jennifer Ellis: In a world torn apart by economic collapse, Natalie and her husband Richard have established an island of relative safety on a communal farm. Death—by starvation, raiders, or sickness—stalks them daily, and their survival hinges on working together for the common good. But in a lawless […]

Read More

Survival Colony 9, Joshua David Bellin

This book is out September 23, 2014. In a future world of dust and ruin, fourteen-year-old Querry Genn struggles to recover the lost memory that might save the human race. Querry is a member of Survival Colony Nine, one of the small, roving groups of people who outlived the wars […]

Read More

M.E. Cooper

Megan Cooper is an undergraduate in all things English at a hometown university in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She juggles three jobs, helps save the turtles in Costa Rica, and plasters her walls with sticky notes of her favorite songs and quotes in the meantime. She’s published poems in the scholastic […]

Read More

Michael Donoghue – Double Double

This story was too short to be eligible for the contest, but we are happy to present it here. *** Watch for these stories in the anthology Winds of Change: Short Stories about our Climate, coming this fall (2015).  

Read More

Monika Yadav

My life has been as much the product of hard work as of destiny. Born in the state of Haryana (one of centres of the project Green Revolution in India), I soon moved out from there to the hilly regions of Uttarakhand. Thanks to my father’s transferable job, we never […]

Read More

Gabriella Brand

Gabriella Brand’s short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in a variety of publications including Room Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, StepAway, Culinate,3 Elements Review, and Switched-On Guggenheim. She divides her time between the Eastern Townships of Quebec and Connecticut, where she teaches foreign languages. She travels widely, mostly on […]

Read More

M.E. Cooper – Everlast

Watch for many of these stories in the anthology Winds of Change: Short Stories about our Climate, coming this fall (2015).

Read More