Emma Pattee ’s debut novel, Tilt, is lucid and terrifying. But also, such a fun read. Which is weird to say since it’s about one of my greatest fears.

She’s also a climate journalist who’s written so many important, urgent stories about the existential crisis we’re all living through.

I was SO curious to talk to her about balancing heavy topics in fiction and in nonfiction and how she approaches each. Check out our Q&A in today’s issue of Wild Writing: