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.

Storytelling can be a powerful tool to help us imagine a way through the climate crisis. In order to reach better futures, we must first be able to imagine them. In this one-hour interactive workshop, we’ll discuss an emerging genre of science fiction called solarpunk, which challenges writers to combine pragmatic and imaginative techniques to envision climate solutions. Solarpunk focuses on grassroots, collective action and explores the community-level impacts of sustainable technologies and regenerative practices.