Charlotte Lilley (she/her) is an emerging writer, editor, and graduate student currently based in Hamilton, Ontario. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Western University, and in summer 2023 completed a Master of Applied Literary Arts at the Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Grenfell Campus, where she also held an F.A. Aldrich Fellowship. Charlotte is currently a student in McMaster University’s MA in Communication and New Media, supported by a Harry Lyman Hooker Sr. Fellowship.

Charlotte’s writing has appeared in Horseshoe Literary Magazine, Intermission Magazine, the Stratford Beacon Herald, and the Calgary Philharmonic’s Prelude. Her academic interests sit at the intersections of performance theory, ecocriticism, and media studies, and often include considerations of speculative/genre fiction, and fan culture.

Her current work explores the climate crisis, considering place and positionality, community, hopefulness, and climate anxiety through the lens of speculative fiction, using the genre’s potential for reimagination to examine the climate emergency in unique and deeply personal ways.