Francis Gene-Rowe (UK)

Francis Gene-Rowe works with poetry, games, and science fiction, and teaches media practices at the University of Southampton. You can find their poetry in Strange Realism (Future Natures), ALOCASIA: 99 queer writers on plants and nature, Permeable Barrier, and Corroding the Now: Poetry and Science|SF (Veer Books & Crater Press). Francis is a co-director of the London Science Fiction Research Community, and has published critical work on petrocultures, cyberpunk, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Philip K. Dick. At present, Francis thinks, learns, and creates around speculative divination, losing in games, and goblin futures.

Photo: Francis Gene-Rowe

Opening the Black Box

11 May – 15 May