About B.A. Mahrab

I’m a short story author, content creator, and future novelist.  A lifelong love of science and the natural world fuels my growing passion for ecological science fiction.  When writing, I try to defy the historically dark and dystopian drift of the science fiction genre. I’m a firm believer in the idea that “…while the future might be an overwhelming prospect, it doesn’t have to be frightening, and it doesn’t have to hurt.” – RoAnna Sylva.  Instead of focusing on everything wrong, my dream is to craft stories that leave readers filled with brighter outlooks and open to the possibilities of better outcomes for the future of humankind – even when that same future isn’t so bright.

I want my audience to picture themselves inside the worlds I create and interacting with the characters I build.

My short term goal is to discover ways to blend my work as a content creator for the medical technology industry with historically accurate and ecologically beneficial lifestyles for the characters I create.  I feel this blend can empower me to build worlds and characters that add a true-to-life dimension to the extremely unique brand of science fiction I hope to produce.

My long term goals include developing a collection of short stories and micro-fiction which will link together and form a picture of how daily life might look in the future.  I have also begun the process of outlining a trilogy of novels based in the solarpunk sub-genre. The trilogy will follow several generations of humanity as they struggle to survive looming climate disasters using ingenuity in tandem with smart technology and a hell of a lot of luck.

I honed my skills for dreaming up ways to save humankind from self-annihilation at Southern New Hampshire University’s Mountainview MFA program. With my own ingenuity and a hell of a lot of luck, I earned my MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) in June of 2019.