I (Andrew Dana Hudson, or ADH) am a speculative fiction writer and generalist, wearing hats such as researcher, teacher, and critical futurist. I’m the author of Absence: A Novel (coming May 5, 2026 from Soho Press) 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, Long Now Ideas, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, and many more. My fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, longlisted for the BSFA, and translated into Italian.
In 2016 my story “Sunshine State” won the first Imagination and Clate Futures Contest, and in 2017 I was runner up in the Kaleidoscope Writing The Future Contest. In 2025, my story “Any Percent” won the 63rd Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Awards in Writing. My 2015 essay “On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk” has helped define and grow the “solarpunk” subgenre. I’m an active member of SFWA and attended the prestigious 2022 Clarion Workshop.
I have an MFA in creative writing and an MA in sustainability, both from Arizona State University, where I’m also an Imaginary College Fellow at the Center for Science and the Imagination. I often teach, lecture, and advise on topics such as climate fiction and solarpunk, including serving as a story reviewer on Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Contest, and teaching an online craft class with Clarion West. Find out more about my academic teaching here.
My nonfiction and peer-reviewed research has appeared in Slate, Jacobin, Long Now Ideas, AI & Society, Climate Policy, and more. My newsletter solarshades.club has been featured in Today in Tabs, Hacker News, and Web Curios. Solarshades publishes more or less monthly with essays on climate, tech, culture, and futures, as well as occasional original fiction. Subscribe for free.
My research — partnering with institutions like the University of Toronto, the American University Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal, and 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. In 2024 I attended the Sci-Fi Economics Lab residency in Messina, Italy, and in 2025 I was a National Wildlife Federation Carbon Removal Justice Fellow.
As a speaker, I’ve been invited give talks and participate in panels at top conferences and venues, such as the Museum of the Future in Dubai, Re:Publica in Berlin, and C2MTL in Montreal.
I’ve previously worked in journalism, tech, publishing, PR, political consulting, and healthcare innovation. I also teach yoga. Today I think of myself as a generalist with a focus on communications and narrative strategy.
Andrew Dana Hudson 