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Born in the south of Mexico, she was raised in rebel Zapatista autonomous municipalities to later settle down in San Cristobal de las Casas where she cofounded ''La Casa de las Flores'', a non-profit dedicated to educate, feed and care for the marginalized children living on extreme poverty in the streets of her city. After graduating from Nursing school she enrolled in Biotechnology and Astrophysics.
"Cli-Fi" (Climate Fiction): The New Literary Genre That Isn't That Fictional
All we read, hear, and speak regarding the future and climate tends to be done over a great deal of numbers and statistics. How far into the land will sea levels rise? How high up or down will the temperatures leap? How many billions of people will starve and die?
Scary? Yes; however, easy for the mind to imagine? Not entirely. And perhaps that's why a growing amount of authors are going far beyond the numbers to bring us not only the mental images but present us with how this future smells, tastes, and feels. This is Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction), which is set in a universe where climate change chaos and the devastation we earthlings brought onto ourselves reign.
"In the present day the country is so filled with lies and fantasy and fiction surrounding the truth, that it might require the fiction writer to plainly lay out what is reality and what is not."
