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 Community Climate 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.