Rajat Chaudhuri
Rajat Chaudhuri has published ten books including ci-fi novels, short story collections, translations and edited anthologies of speculative and climate stories. His most recent novels Spellcasters and The Butterfly Effect have climate and environment (cli-fi) themes while two of his co-edited works are from the solarpunk sub-genre of cli-fi. Another volume of climate stories for children is forthcoming in January, 2025. The Butterfly Effect and a co-edited volume of solarpunk stories have been included in syllabi or teaching workshops in some colleges or universities in India, USA, Italy and the UK. The Butterfly Effect was listed by Book Riot in Fifty Must Read Novels on Eco-Disaster.
Chaudhuri has spoken about climate change fiction (cli-fi), speculative storytelling and sustainability issues in a variety of national and international venues including University of Oxford (UK), Sahitya Akademi (India), National Library (India), Museum of Science Fiction (Washington D.C.), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, PRC), Open University (UK), Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (Japan), George Washington University (USA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), Kolkata Litfest (AKLF), Green Literature Festival and at a Fridays for Future fireside chat. He has also delivered keynotes, memorial lectures, talks, faculty development programmes, and workshops on climate fiction in a number of educational institutions of India including Miranda House, St Stephen’s college, St Joseph’s college (Kerala), NIEPA (NCERT), St Andrews college (Mumbai) among others. He has also been interviewed on these issues by Writers Rebel collective of Extinction Rebellion (UK) and has been mentioned or quoted in multiple feature articles about climate fiction in Indian media outlets like Times of India, The Print and Scroll.
Chaudhuri has been involved with climate activism for close to two decades working both at the grassroots and at the international advocacy level. He has represented developing nation NGOs on climate and energy issues at the United Nations (New York) besides speaking or participating in several environment and climate themed events in the USA, France, Thailand, Sweden and the Netherlands. Besides contributing to the UNDP Human Developmen Report, Chaudhuri has written columns, articles, essays and op-eds on environment, climate and cli-fi issues for New Indian Express, Scroll, The Telegraph among other venues. He is also a recipient of a Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellowship (UK), Hawthornden Castle fellowship (Scotland, UK), Arts Council Korea-InKO residency among other awards and his fiction has been featured in the climate change education video game and book, Survive the Century.
Cristina Jurado
Cristina Jurado is a bilingual author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other hybrid genres, as well as editor, translator, and sf promoter. In 2019 she became the first female author to win the Best Novel Ignotus Award (Spain’s Hugo) for Bionautas. Her recent fiction in English includes her collection “Alphaland & Other Tales” (Calque) and many stories in various venues, such as Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Apex magazine, and “The Best of World SF” by Head of Zeus. Her works have been translated into English, Italian, Romanian, Chinese and Japanese. Distinguished as Europe’s Best SF Promoter Award in 2020, she has worked as editor and contributor in Apex magazine and Constelación magazine, Spanish slush reader for Clarkesworld and creator of LIBRISIMO podcast. Her latest postapocaliptic eco-horror novella “ChloroPhilia” has just being published by Apex Publishing.
Chen Qiufan
Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chan) was born in Swatow, China.
He is a science fiction writer, a columnist and an online advertising strategist. He published his first short story in 1997 in <Science Fiction World>, China’s largest science fiction magazine. Since 2004, he has published over 30 stories in <Science Fiction World>, <Esquire>, <Chutzpah> and other magazines. His first novella, <The Abyss of Vision>, came out in 2006. He won several awards, Taiwan’s Dragon Fantasy Award, China Galaxy Award, Chinese Nebula Award and a SF & Fantasy Translation Award (Translated by Ken Liu). He had several stories translated into English (mostly by Ken Liu) and Italian can be found on Clarkesworld, Interzone, F & SF and other anthologies such as <The Apex Book of World SF II> and <Alias 6>.
His debut novel <The Waste Tide> (2013) was described as “When William Gibson writes The Windup Girl”.
He now lives in Beijing and works for Google China.
Nabeel Ismeer
Nabeel Ismeer builds solar power plants across Asia during the day. He spends his nights writing, centred around the question ‘What if?’. What if the stone age had a Leonardo Da Vinci, was Lascaux her Mona Lisa? What if prehistoric leaders resorted to discrimination when they had no answer to the ice age? What if mitigating climate change can also help reverse inequality and further humanity? His writings, which include themes of climate change and inequality, have been published in print and online magazines. The Hunter’s Walk is his first book.
Jan Lee
Jan Lee (pen name) has worked in corporate affairs and sustainability in the Asia Pacific region since 1994. She previously led ESG and communications in Asia Pacific for a major technology company, as well as Corporate Citizenship and External Communications Asia Pacific for the world’s leading chemical company. Since taking a step back from the corporate world in 2022, she has become a full-time sustainability activist and writer.
She is also an award-winning science fiction writer. She is the co-author, with Steve Willis, of “Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism” (Habitat Press UK), a winner in the Green Stories contest. Her work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and recognized several times in the “Writers of the Future” contest. She is Editor-in-Chief of The Apostrophe, the quarterly magazine of the Hong Kong Writers Circle.
She currently acts as a senior advisor for a number of environmental and social activist organizations, as well as co-chairing the Energy & ESG Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce of Hong Kong.
Khoa Le
Represented by Astound
Illustrator, author and painter based in HCMC, Vietnam.
Exhibition and awards:
– Solo exhibition “Unravel” (Vietnam) 2010
– Group exhibition Art Expo Malaysia 2012
– Asia Contemporary Art Show, group exhibition (Hong Kong) 2012
– AFCC 2012, Illustration group exhibition (Singapore) 2012
– Group exhibition, “Saigon Artbook” (Vietnam) 2014
– Grand prize SAMSUNG KIDSTIME AUTHORS’ AWARD 2015
– Solo exhibition, Craig Thomas gallery (HCMc, Vietnam) 2016
– 2nd runner up SCHOLASTIC PICTURE BOOK AWARD (by Scholastic Asia, Singapore) 2017
– Winner of the Best Illustrator Category – 2020 Northern Lights Book Awards (The Lonely Polar Bear – Publisher: Happy Fox Books)
Shalini Srinivasan
Shalini Srinivasan writes comics and fantasy by night. Her children’s novels include Vanamala and the Cephalopod (which was included in the White Ravens) and Gangamma’s Gharial. She has written numerous picture books on environmental themes, of which two — The Case of the Missing Water and The Sound of Water — deal with the effects of climate change in India. She also writes short stories for adults, including ‘Road – A Fairytale’ in Strange Horizons, about the effects of urbanization on the local landscape. By day, Shalini teaches English Literature at Azim Premji University, Bangalore.
Steve Stine
Steve Stine has worked in the corporate world for over 35 years in the areas of advisory, leadership, and people development, primarily focused on the Asia Pacific region.
He is a professional writer, facilitator, and thought-leader, who has used a variety of mediums (podcasts, newsletters, roundtables, etc) to address topics relating to our future economy, AI, human behaviour, and geopolitics.
In The Deep Earth Chronicles series, Steve seeks to reframe the way we view our planet by re-evaluating humankind’s failed relationship with the natural world.
Steve is married with two daughters and splits his time between Bali, Indonesia and Bend, Oregon. He is happiest when kayaking on the rivers and lakes of Central Oregon, scuba diving around the Indonesian islands, or cross-country skiing through old forest. Steve is a student of mythology and for the past three decades has collected old myths and legends from indigenous communities around the world.
Bijal Vachharajani
When Bijal Vachharajani is not reading a children’s book, she is writing or editing one. She has written A Cloud Called Bhura: Climate Champions to the Rescue, which won the Auther Children’s Book Award 2020, and So You Want to Know About the Environment, and has co-authored 10 Indian Champions Who Are Fighting to Save the Planet and The Great Indian Nature Trail with Uncle Bikky. Her picture books include P.S. What’s up with the climate?, What’s Neema Eating Today? and The Seed Savers. The former editor of Time Out Bengaluru, Bijal has worked with 350.org, Fairtrade and Sanctuary Asia. Senior Editor at Pratham Books, Bijal has a Masters in Environment Security and Peace, with a specialisation in climate change from the University for Peace.
Steve Willis
Steve Willis is an engineer and innovator who works on large-scale climate solutions and environmental projects. During the covid lockdowns wrote short, climate fiction stories which explored potential positive outcomes to the climate crisis.
Steve’s heavy industrial background is combined with sharp observation, a vivid imagination, relentless persistence and a talent for lucid dreaming. He uses these unusual skills to continuously seek massive scale climate solutions, to identify climate start-up opportunities and to write stories which capture some of the essence of working on the climate crisis challenge.
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