Lisa Yaszek is Regents’ Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, where she explores science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. Her recent award-winning books include Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (2016); Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (2021); and her The Future is Female! Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women series (2018-present). Dr. Yaszek’s ideas about science fiction as a window into culture have been featured in venues including Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and Space.com, and she has been an expert commentator for CBS Sunday Morning, the BBC4, Turner Classic Movies, and the AMC miniseries James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction. A founding member of the Eugie Award for Short Speculative Fiction, in 2024 Dr. Yaszek received the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the study of science, technology, and science fiction across media.
