Ebi Robert is a trained lawyer and creative writer. He is the author of the speculative fiction novels Banishment of the Six Forces and Riddles in the Shadows; his other published works include Zige and Eulogy and Puffery. Several of his works have been featured in international anthologies. He is the founder of ACER Writing House and a member of the African Speculative Fiction Society, British Science Fiction Association, Association of Nigerian Authors, and World Institute for Peace.
Ebi’s Climate Imagination Mini-Fellowship project is based in Yenagoa, in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, where he will lead a set of activities designed to raise awareness of climate issues and encourage people to envision climate futures: a radio program on the station Golden 97.5 FM exploring visions of hopeful climate futures; an in-person event featuring readings from the Center for Science and the Imagination’s book Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures; and the assembly and distribution of a chapbook in Nigerian Pidgin English with contributions from local writers exploring culturally responsive and locally rooted climate futures.