Writing Team
The American West was built on snowmelt, predictable fire seasons, and cheap electricity. All three are gone, and it's only April.
Maya Jiménez
Maya Jiménez, 34, is a Polk Award-winning narrative journalist covering climate adaptation, environmental justice, and community resilience. Born in Guatemala City and raised in Oakland, she specializes in collaborative journalism that centers frontline voices, spending months embedded with communities facing climate impacts.
Seth D. Carrington
Former merchant seaman and labor journalist who spent decades watching working communities navigate crises while elites offered empty promises. Writes with dark humor about the gap between climate rhetoric and lived reality.
David Kern
Fiction writer and commercial pilot known for emotionally honest stories about grief, hope, and ordinary people managing loss. His plain-spoken style has made him widely considered the best writer of his generation.
Yuki Tanabe
Japanese speculative fiction writer who transforms climate change into visceral bodily experience through precise, sensation-first prose. Makes readers feel futures in their own bodies while refusing to aestheticize catastrophe or manufacture hope.
