Andrew Hudson

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, and futurist. He is the author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures, 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. His fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, longlisted for the BSFA, and translated into Italian. In 2016 his story “Sunshine State” won the first Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, and in 2017 he was runner up in the Kaleidoscope Writing The Future Contest. His 2015 essay “On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk” has helped define and grow the “solarpunk” subgenre. He is an active member of SFWA and attended the prestigious 2022 Clarion Workshop. His next novel, Absence, is forthcoming from Soho Press.

Andrew has a master’s degree in sustainability from Arizona State University, where he is now pursuing an MFA in creative writing (fiction). 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 an online craft class 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.