by Susan Defreitas | Jun 10, 2020 | Fiction
Author’s note: This short climate fiction piece was originally published in 2015; Story magazine selected it for a feature this May for National Short Story Month. When we were young, we all believed in something called earth changes. The coming of quakes,...
by Susan Defreitas | May 25, 2020 | Book Reviews, Opinion
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet by Kristin OhlsonSometime in the spring last year, I talked to Andrew Millison, one of my oldest friends. He’s a senior instructor in the permaculture program at Oregon...
by Susan Defreitas | May 11, 2020 | Personal Essays
I write climate fiction. Or strive to, anyway. At times, the term seems to be treated as a subset of catastrophic, post-apocalyptic, or even dystopian fiction, and so far, that’s not been my approach. My approach has been centered on the here and now, on the solutions...
by Susan Defreitas | Apr 21, 2020 | Poetry
This week, in honor of Earth Day, I’m sharing three poems that speak to the seasons, the way that they’re changing, and the ways they’re changing us. (“When the rains came” was first published in The Lake Rises: Poems to &for Our...
by Susan Defreitas | Apr 9, 2020 | Poetry
Author’s note: This month, massive protests were planned for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, with the aim of sounding the alarm on climate change and creating a wave of action and awareness that would take us all the way to the ballot box in November. With...
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