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About the author
About the Author
RITA GRIMES is a speculative fiction author and writing educator with over fifteen years of experience teaching worldbuilding and narrative craft at university level. Her work has appeared in journals including *The Writer's Chronicle*, *Strange Horizons*, and *Uncanny Magazine*, where her essays on dystopian fiction and political storytelling have been featured and anthologized.
She is the author of three dystopian novels and the writing guide *Building Dark Futures*, which was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Genre-Forward Craft Book. Her fiction has been translated into six languages and taught in university courses on speculative literature and contemporary narrative theory.
GRIMES holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin, where her thesis on narrative resistance in totalitarian fiction received the Michener Fellowship. She has served as a genre consultant for multiple television development projects and speaks regularly at writing conferences including the World Science Fiction Convention, the Writer's Digest Annual Conference, and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference.
Her current research focuses on the intersection of climate science and speculative narrative, examining how fiction can model psychological adaptation to environmental collapse. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is at work on her fourth novel and a new craft guide on writing climate fiction.
