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Phoebe is represented by Hannah Bowman of Liza Dawson Associates.

Phoebe Wagner uses she/they pronouns and prefers a mixture of both in publications. In academic or noncreative pieces, they appreciate Dr. Wagner to be used when appropriate.

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Phoebe Wagner is an author, editor, and academic writing and living at the intersection of speculative fiction and climate change. Find them online: phoebe-wagner.com.

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Phoebe Wagner is a writer, academic, and editor of three solarpunk anthologies, including Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation. Publishers Weekly called their novella When We Hold Each Other Up a “fresh take on climate fiction.” She holds a PhD in literature and is an assistant professor of creative writing.

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Phoebe Wagner is an author, editor, and academic writing at the intersection of speculative fiction and climate change. Their debut novel A Shot of Gin explores Nevada’s high desert through vampires and nuclear gods, and Publishers Weekly called their novella When We Hold Each Other Up a “fresh take on climate fiction.” She is the editor of three solarpunk anthologies, including Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. They blog at the Hugo- and Ignyte-winning Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together. Wagner holds a PhD in literature, and she is an assistant professor of creative writing. Follow them at phoebe-wagner.com.

Academic-facing bio:

Phoebe Wagner is a writer, editor, and academic working at the intersection of climate change and speculative fiction. Their academic research explores how the predictive futures unintentionally imagined in speculative fiction can inspire new systems of adaptation and transformation during the climate crisis. Their debut novel A Shot of Gin (2023) explores Nevada’s high desert through vampires and nuclear gods, and Publishers Weekly called their novella When We Hold Each Other Up (2023) a “fresh take on climate fiction.” She is the editor of three solarpunk anthologies, including Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation (2017). Wagner’s current projects focus on completing a short story collection themed around environmentalism, skateboarding, and activism, and dark academic novel focusing on disrupting white supremacy and settler colonialism in higher ed. She is also an active participant in the speculative fiction community, holding membership to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, regularly presenting at the World Science Fiction Convention, and blogging about speculative literature Hugo- and Ignyte-winning Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together. Follow her at phoebe-wagner.com.