Green Tomorrows: How Sci-Fi Writers Imagine Environmental Futures

About the Author

Rudel Noelia is an independent scholar and writer whose work intersects literary criticism, environmental humanities, and speculative fiction. They hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where their dissertation examined ecotopian narratives in twentieth- and twenty-first-century global science fiction. Noelia has taught courses on climate fiction, utopian literature, and environmental justice at Santa Cruz and at the University of Vermont. Their critical essays have appeared in *Science Fiction Studies*, *Extrapolation*, *Environmental Humanities*, and the essay collection *The Cambridge Companion to Climate Fiction*. In addition to *Green Tomorrows*, they are the author of *The Ungrounded Archive: Feminist Utopias in the Age of Extinction* (under contract with Wesleyan University Press) and co-editor of *Imagining After: Post-Apocalyptic Narratives and the Politics of Repair* (University Press of Mississippi, 2019). Noelia has served as a judge for the Otherwise Award (formerly the James Tiptree Jr. Award) and is a frequent speaker at conferences such as the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. They currently live in Portland, Oregon, where they are at work on a novel set in a solarpunk city-state, tentatively titled *The Sunken Orchard*. When not reading or writing, they volunteer with local urban rewilding projects and maintain a small pollinator garden from which they harvest seeds to share with neighbors.