Steve Willis is a chemical engineer and innovator with decades of experience addressing environmental problems for large-scale industries. He is also a climate fiction author, and he produced the No More Fairy Tales anthology for the COP27 climate summit in collaboration with the Green Stories team. Genevieve Hilton is an author and journalist who writes under the name Jan Lee. She is editor-in-chief of the literary magazine The Apostrophe and a book reviewer for Earth.org. Together, Steve and Genevieve are the coauthors of Fairhaven: A Novel of Climate Optimism.
For their Climate Imagination Mini-Fellowship project, Steve and Genevieve will present several sessions on climate fiction storytelling at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil and at the Alternative COP (AlterCOP) events in Malaysia. These will provide opportunities to engage global leaders, advocates, journalists, and members of the public about hopeful climate futures. Further, conversations and interviews conducted at these events will serve as the foundation for articles in Earth.org and for chapters in the sequel to Steve and Genevieve’s coauthored climate fiction novel Fairhaven.