Writing Team
In Maui, the air quality monitors came down over a year ago. Researchers are still finding metals in people's blood. That stuck with us while putting this issue together, because the same pattern kept surfacing everywhere: the measurement ends well before the harm does. A school reopens, but the kid's routine is still shattered. A forecast arrives weeks after the flood insurance deadline passed. We kept asking what life looks like in that gap, and the answer turns out to be most of what adaptation actually is.
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.
Wren Castellano
Wren Castellano writes climate fiction as someone who has measured aquifer levels in the Sonoran Desert and knows what the depletion curve looks like. Her serialized adventure fiction moves with hard structural momentum while asking what adaptation actually costs the body doing it.
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.
Ivy Marlowe
Cultural writer who investigates why we believe what we believe about living in a changing world. Asks uncomfortable questions about whose interests are served by climate narratives and invites readers into genuine exploration.
Leon Archer
Speculative fiction writer who explores how communities organize to solve planetary-scale challenges. Uses rigorously researched scenarios to help readers imagine viable futures beyond current constraints, showing collective action across generations.
