Expected to be a firework of ideas, this conversation moderated and envisioned by our Guest Curator, Omar El Akkad, takes us into the terrifying wildness of the Anthropocene. A poet, a novelist, and an essayist explore how we orient, then navigate, in a rapidly fracturing reality. Madhur Anand evokes stunning “explicit, exponential beauty” (Publisher’s Weekly) in her poetry that examines living as a poet and a scientist in this era. Kim Fu’s short stories make the familiar strange and the strange familiar in short stories that reckon with technological consequence and human contradiction—and what happens when we come face to face with monsters in the deep. Amazon Canada First Novel Award-shortlisted author John Elizabeth Stintzi joins us with My Volcano—a pre-apocalyptic vision following characters amidst various eruptions (personal and planetary). What magic for surviving our future will these writers conjure together?