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Fire & Water: Pushing against Climate Fiction
Saturday, March 26, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am
Is climate fiction a misnomer? The climate crisis teaches us that human experiences (and those of other species) are myriad, multifaceted, and irreducible to a narrowly prescribed set of expectations that genres often impose. There can be no one Thing with a capital T that constitutes fiction about climate change, as this anthology's seventeen stories illustrate. Showing itself in different and often inequitable ways around the world, the climate crisis and the stories about it are diverse.
Participants
Kristin Thiel is coeditor of Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene and a full-time writer and editor based out of Portland, Oregon. Other anthologies she has contributed to include Spent and Men Undressed.
Mary Fifield is coeditor of Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene. Her fiction has been published in Midway Journal, J Journal, and others, and her short story collection was a finalist for Black Lawrence Press' Hudson Prize. She is working on a novel about the climate crisis.
Jennifer Morales is a queer Latinx poet, fiction writer, and performance artist. Her short story collection, Meet Me Halfway: Milwaukee Stories, was Wisconsin Center for the Book’s 2016 Book of the Year, among other honors. She serves as president of the Driftless Writing Center, in Viroqua, Wisconsin.
Carlos Labbé has published ten novels, among which Navidad & Matanza, Loquela, and Spiritual Choreographies were translated in English. He has also published stories collection, essays, poetry, screenwriting, and music albums. He is part of the literary collective Sangría.
