Wednesday, 24 September 2025

7 pm, Rio Grande Theater

Free and open to the public

Sarena Ulibarri 

Author of Another Life and Steel Tree

Publicist, UNM Press

Editor of Glass and Gardens, coeditor of Multispecies Cities

Solarpunk: Solutions-Based Storytelling for Climate Hope

Sarena Ulibarri lives, writes, and plants trees in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her book Another Life, about a fictional eco-village in Death Valley, was published by Stelliform Press in 2023 and translated into Spanish by Crononauta. More than fifty of her short stories have been published in magazines such as DreamForge, Solarpunk Magazine, and Tractor Beam as well as in anthologies such as Bright Green Futures and Solar Flare. She edited two anthologies of international optimistic climate fiction, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers and Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters, and co-edited the anthologies Multispecies Cities and Solarpunk Creatures. For four years, she served as a story reviewer for Grist's Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest.