Rae Mariz is a subversive storyteller, artist, translator, and cultural critic. She’s the author of the YA sci-fi <em>The Unidentified</em>, the climate fantasy <em>Weird Fishes</em>, and many works of narrative non-fiction in between. Her short fiction has been featured in <em>khōréō </em>and <em>Solarpunk Magazine</em>,<em> </em>finalist in Grist’s third annual Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction contest, and made the shortlist for 2023 IAFA Imagining Indigenous Futures Award. She’s a Hawaiian writer who lives in Stockholm where she translated film scripts for the Swedish film industry for the past 20 years.