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 a Master of Applied Literary Arts from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, 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, and will begin a SSHRC-funded PhD in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Fall 2025.

Charlotte’s writing has appeared in Horseshoe Literary Magazine, Intermission Magazine, the Stratford Beacon Herald, the Calgary Philharmonic’s Prelude, and elsewhere. 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.