Rona Fernandez (she/they) is a writer, fundraiser, activist, dancer, wife, and stillmother (a mother with no living children) who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her non-fiction and fiction have appeared in publications such as The Master’s Review: New Voices, The Rumpus, Apparition Lit, Yes! Magazine, Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk Tales (longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association award for Best Collection of 2023), and What God is Honored Here? An Anthology on Miscarriage and Infant Loss, the first collection of writings by Native women and women of color on this topic.
Rona is grateful to have been born and raised and to still live and work on the Huchiun land of the Lisjan people, a place others know as the East Bay. She is an alumna of the Voices/VONA workshop for writers of color (including being part of the first-ever speculative fiction VONA workshop with Tananarive Due in 2014, held the same week as Octavia Butler‘s birthday), the Macondo Writers Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers Conference and the Tin House workshops. Rona is a founding member of the Words & Worlds speculative fiction collective and was part of the inaugural cohort of the San Francisco Writers Grotto’s Rooted & Written program for writers of color. She is currently working on a climate fiction novel set in an imagined version of the San Francisco Bay Area in the year 2051.
You can support and read Rona’s work by becoming a member of her Patreon community. You can also follow her on Medium.
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