SIMON GRAHAM is an Australian writer, educator and climate change worker born in the year 357 ppm CO2. They live in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands, where they are an MFA Candidate in Prose Writing at the University of Washington. Their writing has won the Eugene Van Buren Prize in Fiction, the David Guterson Award and the 2024 AWP Intro Journals Project Award, and has appeared or is forthcoming in New York Tyrant, New Ohio Review and The Hopkins Review, among other publications. They have worked for climate change non-profits in Australia and the United States, and have taught courses at a university level in fiction writing, activist writing and climate change mitigation. They are working on a queer thriller set in the shadowy world of Australian climate politics.