GEORGIA WRIGHT

ABOUT

Georgia Wright (they/she) is a multi-genre writer, artist, audio producer, and educator. They are the co-creator of the acclaimed youth climate podcast Inherited (Critical Frequency, 2020) and an alum of the 2025 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop.

Georgia’s work is most often satirical and speculative in nature, preoccupied with climate transfiguration, queer community, and wilderness. Their audio projects have been featured in The Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR, and CBS This Morning; their writing has been featured in Atmos, The Guardian, and The Indy. They are the recipient of a Merlyn Climate Grant (2020) and the winner of a Casey Shearer Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction (2017).

They hold a B.A. from Brown University (2017) and are a third-year student in the MFA in Writing program at UC San Diego, where they also teach. In 2026, they were awarded a DOC Excellence in Teaching Award.

Outside of work, Georgia draws, paints, organizes, performs in drag, watches birds, officiates weddings, climbs fake rocks, swims in the real ocean, and strives to become ungovernable. 

photo by Lyra Montoya, 2026