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radically altered by climate change, comprising Osiris, Cataveiro and the just-published Tamaruq. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies from Salt Publishing, NewCon Press and Jurassic London, including The Best British Fantasy. She was shortlisted for a 2013 BSFA Award in the Short Fiction category for her story 'Saga's Children' (The Lowest Heaven, Jurassic). She has a long-standing love of dance and circus, and when not writing can usually be found practicing aerial circus skills or pole. R OTIMI BABATUNDE is a Nigerian writer and playwright. In April 2014 he was named in the Hay Festival's Africa39 project as one of the 39 Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 with the potential and the talent to define the trends of the region. His published work includes poems and stories in anthologies, including Little Drops, A Volcano of Voices and Die Aussenseite des Elementes. Babatunde's plays have been presented at institutions such 20 Le portrait magazine