Deez Interviews: Tristan Ahtone on taking cues from sci-fi to cover climate change + thoughts on journalism as a form

This week’s interview is with Tristan Ahtone, the editor-in-chief of The Texas Observer and writer of the fictional short story Climate Criminals, which was part of High Country News’ speculative journalism issue from August 2019.

I reached out to Tristan to chat last month when I saw his short story recirculating on Twitter in the wake of the West Coast…