About this ebook
About the author
April Teague is a literary critic, educator, and a founding member of the Climate Fiction Writers League. Her work focuses on how contemporary fiction shapes public understanding of environmental crises, and she has written extensively on the intersection of narrative, ethics, and ecological thought.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and a Master of Library Science from the University of Washington, where her graduate research examined the role of speculative fiction in environmental education curricula. She has taught courses on climate fiction and environmental literature at the University of Montana and through the nonprofit literary organization Writing Our Future, where she currently serves as a senior fellow.
Her essays and reviews have appeared in *Orion Magazine*, *The Georgia Review*, *Literary Hub*, *The Millions*, and *The Los Angeles Review of Books*, where she writes a regular column on climate fiction. She is also the author of two previous books: *The World in Miniature: Microcosm and Meaning in Contemporary Fiction* and *Stories for the Sixth Extinction: Narrative and the Environmental Imagination*.
In addition to her critical work, Teague has facilitated climate fiction reading groups for community libraries, high school classrooms, and university seminars across the Pacific Northwest. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she serves on the advisory board of the Pacific Northwest Climate Fiction Archive and maintains an extensive collection of speculative fiction that threatens to overtake her living room. She can be reached at april.teague@climatereader.com or through her website, www.climatereader.com.
