2021 Winning Authors
Brittani Howell
Brittani Howell has worked in journalism for seven years. She covered entertainment and arts as an editor in Statesboro, Ga.; transitioned to local education reporting in Bloomington, Ind.; and now leads community engagement initiatives for a health news team in the Midwest. In her spare time, she reads everything she can get her hands on. She gets stressed about climate change and sometimes channels that stress into stories about hopeful climate futures. Brittani lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with her partner and a terrier named Samwise.
Jacob Ashton
Jacob lives in the UK, having grown up in the Cambridgeshire Fens and now living in Bristol, overlooking the Avon Gorge. He has maintained a passion for the natural world, and its relationship to people, all his life. Having studied natural sciences and zoology, he now works in environmental communications with a spot of freelance science writing. In his free time he enjoys exploring the south-west of England and writing fiction, often with an environmental focus. More of his work can be found on jacobashton.net."
Jenni Juvonen
Jenni Juvonen (http://www.jennijuvonen.fi/) is originally from Finland and currently lives in Berlin, Germany, where she works in tech. By day, she is a product manager in the field of artificial intelligence, and by night, she is a writer of science fiction, exploring the ways in which technology intersects with society and shapes our culture, thinking, and the human condition. She writes in English and Finnish, and her short fiction has been awarded in several international competitions.