This special issue is wholly focused on climate change with original speculative fiction from twelve noted contributors in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Global in scope, each story is focused on one part of the dire warnings issued by the 2018 Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change.
Featuring Tommy Orange, Elif Shafak, Luis Alberto Urrea, Asja Bakic, Rachel Heng, and more.
About the Author Mikael Awake is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY, and the child of formerly undocumented immigrants from Ethiopia.
His essays have appeared in GQ, the Common, Bookforum, the Awl, and elsewhere.
Asja Bakic (1982) is a Bosnian/Croatian author.
Her debut short story collection, Mars, was published by Feminist Press earlier this year.
She's currently finishing her next book of short stories, Sladostrasce.
Birna Anna Bjornsdottir is an Icelandic writer who lives in New York City and Reykjavik.
She is the author of three novels.
Her most recent one is Perlan, published in Iceland in 2017.
Claire G.
Coleman is a Wirlomin Noongar poet, essayist, novelist, and speaker, whose ancestral country is in the south coast of Western Australia.
Her debut novel, Terra Nullius, won a black&write! Writing Fellowship and a Norma K Hemming award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and Aurealis Awards, among many others.
The Old Lie (September 2019) is her second novel.
Rachel Heng is the author of the novel Suicide Club (Henry Holt, 2018), which was featured as a best summer read by outlets such as the Irish Times, ELLE, Gizmodo, NYLON, the Rumpus, and Bustle.
Suicide Club will be translated into ten languages worldwide and was shortlisted for the Gladstone's Library Writer in Residence award in 2019.
Rachel's short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and Prairie Schooner's Jane Geske Award, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Best Singaporean Short Stories Volume Four, and elsewhere.
She has received gra.
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