SIMON GRAHAM is an Australian writer, educator, and climate change worker living in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands. They are an MFA Candidate in Prose Writing at the University of Washington, where they won the Eugene Van Buren Prize in Fiction.
Simon was a 2023 Climate Corps Fellow with the Environmental Defense Fund and will be a scholarship participant at the 2024 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. Prior to moving to the US they lectured on climate change at Monash University in Melbourne.
They are working on a queer thriller set in the shadowy world of Australian climate politics and a book-length essay about memory, crime and ambiguity.
Wheelbarrow, Ligeia — fiction
Dirk, Vol. 1 Brooklyn — non-fiction
Coral Bleaching, Hobart — fiction
Guinea Pigs, Hobart — non-fiction
Eidolon Son, Bull — fiction
$50 on Both, New York Tyrant — fiction
Selected Creative Writing
Australia could get to net zero emissions much quicker than 2050 – if our politics was a force for change. Here’s how, The Conversation
Tasmania’s reached net-zero emissions and 100% renewables – but climate action doesn’t stop there, The Conversation (syndicated by the World Economic Forum)
Climate plans, net zero and the urgent need to accelerate action, Monash Lens
Selected Climate Writing
ENGL284 Beginning Short Story Writing, University of Washington-Seattle
ENGL131 Composition (‘Writing as Activism’), University of Washington-Seattle
BEX5200 Climate Change and Carbon Management Strategies, Monash University
ECON5103 Business Economics, The University of New South Wales
Classes Taught
simonrhgraham@gmail.com or Twitter
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