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Author Gabrielle Korn discusses her gripping and incisive dystopian novel set in 2050, Yours for the Taking. When climate change has rendered the outside world virtually uninhabitable. Survival is guaranteed only to those accepted into The Inside Project—massive weather-safe structures funded by corporate sponsors and built atop the ruins of cities. Both a scathing satire and a poignant exploration of queer love, chosen family and resilience, Yours for the Taking holds a mirror to our world, exposing the beauty and horror of power, privilege and the limits of corporate feminism.
Gabrielle Korn is the author of three books and the former editor in chief of Nylon Media. Her debut memoir Everybody (Else) Is Perfect was named the number one LGBTQ+ book of the year by Oprah Magazine and the best Jewish memoir of the year by Hey Alma. Her second book, the dystopian science fiction novel Yours for The Taking, was an Indie Next pick and a New York Times best book of the month. Its recent sequel, The Shutouts, has been called "another winner" by Publishers Weekly and "a perfect blend of sadness and hope" by Kirkus. Her writing has appeared across the internet for fifteen years, with bylines in Elle, McSweeney's, The Millions, Literary Hub, InStyle, Refinery29, Oprah Magazine, Autostraddle and more, as well as several anthologies. Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, she lived in New York for over 20 years before moving to LA with her wife, where together they run the Pink Door Artist & Writer residency.
Audrey T. Williams is a Black American and Indo-Burmese poet and wellness facilitator whose work bridges ancestral wisdom and storytelling with community healing. Literary arts and speculative fiction serve as her medicine, inspiring her "Words for Wellness" programs and forthcoming works. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts and is completing a certificate in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. Her writing appears in Lightspeed Magazine, Space & Time Magazine, Amherst Writers Association's Peregrine Journal and Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook, among others. She currently resides in the San Francisco East Bay, where she lives with her husband, mother and 2 grumpy chickens. Her current projects are a memoir about multi-racial identity formation, a speculative flash fiction collection and a poetry chapbook on caregiving.
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Gabrielle Korn — Website | Gabrielle Korn — Instagram
Audrey T. Williams — Website | Audrey T. Williams — Instagram
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