Bio

Lisa Yaszek researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. Yaszek’s books include The Future is Female! Volumes 1 and 2 (Library of America, 2018 and 2022); Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (OSUP, 2020);  Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (Wesleyan, 2016); The Self-Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Narrative (Routledge 2002/2014); and Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction (Ohio State, 2008). Her ideas about science fiction as the premier story form of modernity have been featured in The Washington Post, Food and Wine Magazine, and USA Today and on the AMC miniseries, James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction. A past president of the Science Fiction Research Association, Yaszek currently serves as an editor for the Library of America and as a juror for the Phillip K. Dick, John W. Campbell, and Eugie Foster Science Fiction Awards.