Amy Brady, Guernica's deputy publisher, writes about culture and the environment. She is also senior editor of the Chicago Review of Books, where she writes a monthly column about literature and climate change. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, and other places. She received her PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has won awards from the National Science Foundation, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, the Center for Research Libraries, and various academic organizations. She is also the recipient of a CLIR/Mellon Library of Congress Fellowship.
The provocative journalist on why we should stop speculating about the “threshold of catastrophe,” and instead ask ourselves “How bad are we going to let it get?”
We've known for years about climate change, but only 54% of Americans think it's a "serious issue." That's why, says guest fiction editor Amy Brady, we need to read climate fiction.