Lisa Yaszek

Lisa Yaszek is Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, where she researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. She is particularly interested in the recovery of lost voices in science fiction history and the discovery of new voices from around the globe. Yaszek’s books include "Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction" (2008); "Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction" (2016); "The Future is Female: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women (2018); and "Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century" (2020). Her ideas about science fiction as the premiere story form of modernity have been featured in The Washington Post, Food and Wine Magazine, USA Today, and 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 John W. Campbell and Eugie Foster Science Fiction Awards.