Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, researcher, teacher and critical futurist. He is the author of Absence: A Novel (Soho Press 2026) and Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (Fordham University Press 2022), as well as dozens of short stories appearing in venues like Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Escape Pod, Analog, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, and many more. His essays have appeared in Slate, Jacobin, Long Now Ideas, and more, and he has co-authored papers in journals such as Climate Policy and AI & Society.
Andrew has an MA in Sustainability and an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Arizona State University, where he now works as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of English. He is also an Imaginary College Fellow at the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination. His research, partnering with institutions like Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, uses speculative fiction to explore the entwined social and technical dynamics of future scenarios, particularly the challenges and opportunities of decarbonization and climate repair.
He often teaches, lectures, and advises on climate fiction and solarpunk, including serving as a story reviewer on Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Contest, teaching online craft workshops with Clarion West, and participating in the Sci-Fi Economics Lab residency. He has been invited to speak at top conferences and venues, such as the Museum of the Future in Dubai, Re:Publica in Berlin, and C2MTL in Montreal. He has also worked in journalism, political consulting, healthcare innovation, and teaching yoga.
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