SHAWN OUEINSTEEN; #Climate #Novelist (Mourning Dove)
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BIO: I was born in #Miami when my father was a student at the University of Miami. We moved to NYC when I was 1 when Dad became editor-in-chief of a powerful movie magazine. I inherited my writing dreams from my father. Years later, my parents retired in Miami. My sister still lives there. I suffer when I hear of my home town's current and future climate problems. I moved to Albany, NY, at 6. I loved playing in snow from Sept to March. I've now lived in the Washington, DC, area since I was 12. I began writing fiction when I was seven. I studied writing under the University of Maryland’s writer-in-residence J. R. Salamanca. I participated in The Vicious Circle, a brutal writer’s workshop, for many years. At the age of 22, I had a short novel of mine published by Ballantine Books, a subsidiary of Random House.
As research for this novel, I educated myself in climate science, sustainability, and climate politics. I created a website and blog (with 33 blog entries so far), and connected with 33,000 climate scientists, activists, attorneys, and economists. My connections include Dr. James E. Hansen, Dr. Michael Mann, Michael Regan (of EPA), Jennifer Granholm (Secretary of Energy), Chris Cuomo, Tom Steyer, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rachel Pritzker, and many others. I correspond occasionally over personal email with Hansen and DiCaprio.I recently completed and printed an early draft of my novel and am editing it on hard-copy for the first time. It is coming along far better than I ever dreamed possible.
