Mary Woodbury
A fiction writer, researcher and curator of websites exploring ecology in fiction and providing ecoliterature resources for writers.
Mary Woodbury runs Dragonfly.eco, a site that explores ecology in fiction, including works about climate change.
She writes fiction under pen name Clara Hume. Her novel Back to the Garden has been discussed in Dissent Magazine, Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity (University of Arizona Press), and Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change (Routledge). Mary is currently revising the previous stand-alone novel to act as introduction to the Wild Mountain series. Edition 2 was published in late 2018, and following that is the second part of the duology (Dragonfly Publishing, 2021), The Stolen Child. She is also editing a new novel, Up the River (Dragonfly Publishing, 2020), about an oil spill in a small community in the southern United States.
Mary is also a guest author at SFFWorld.com and Artists & Climate Change as well as a contributing author to Tales from the River (Stormbird Press, 2018).
Mary lives in the lower mainland of British Columbia and enjoys hiking, trail-running, writing, red wine, gardening, and dreaming of going back to Ireland.
Mary is one of our members featuring their work as part of the ClimateCultures Quarantine Connection series. We shared an excerpt from her new story, Bird Song: A Novella, on Day 5 of the 40-day series.
Mary’s ClimateCultures Posts:
Rising Appalachia
A History of Eco-fiction, Part 2
A History of Eco-fiction, Part 1