Nature’s Future is our Future
An Interactive Art Installation in Golden Gate Park
Walk through two future Californias illustrated by historical climate markers from the future. Twelve signs, based on real science, show the future California will have if we invest in nature, and the one we’ll have if we don’t.
*Produced in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy in California, Autumn Leiker, Sam Haynor and Chelsea Hathman.
The Lizard Cure
Or “A Hidden Savior Finds the Lyme Light”
Short Story, published in Anthropocene Magazine
It’s 2070, and Super Lyme Disease is spreading across North America. When a mother loses her child to the disease, she goes on a crusade to fight it—with help from a cold-blooded hero.
The Last Almond*
Short Story, 2nd Place Winner of Grist’s 2024 competition “Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors”
As California prepares to destroy a levee and sacrifice its last remaining almond farm, its caretaker remembers the toll floodwaters have taken on his family.
*Syndicated in Yes Magazine
The Teacher and the Boxer*
Short story published in Identity Theory Magazine
A woman deals with the death of a college friend using two tried and tested coping mechanisms: sex and Renaissance music.
*Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Angel in the Architecture
Short story published in McSweeny’s Quarterly Concern: Issue 53
When an angel falls through the roof of the Pantheon in Rome, a group of tourists must decide what is real and what is god.
Poets Reading the News
Protest Poetry
