Naomi Rivkis
ALLi Author Member
Location: Netherlands (the)
Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Speculative Fiction
Naomi was born in New York City in 1970, a time and place where almost anything seemed possible. Raised by an incurable optimist, it was almost inevitable that she would end up writing in the category called hopepunk. She studied political science and history at the University of Chicago, and writing at Clarion West Writer's Workshop. She lives in the Netherlands with her husband and brother, and occasionally visiting young adult offspring. Her first book is The World As It Ought to Be, a collection of interconnected near-future stories about a world that individual civilians are making slowly, realistically better. Her second, which is the start of an epic trilogy across deep time, is called Paleomythic, and it's planned for release in fall of 2026.
Naomi Rivkis' books
Genres: Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+
What if the future didn't have to be dystopian? In a time when every headline screams of crisis, The World As It Ought to Be dares to ask a different question: What would it actually look like to build a better world? This collection of linked short stories follows ordinary people using tools and methods that exist right now -- no miracle technologies, no superhuman heroes -- to strengthen democracy, fight climate change, and build the kinds of communities we desperately need. Meet the professor planting seeds of democratic renewal in high school classrooms. The farmers turning a neighborhood newsletter into a climate action movement. The activists building tools that make corporate power visible. The artists transforming a city one mural at a time. These are not perfect people in a perfect world. They are people like us, in a world like ours, choosing cooperation over tribalism, and discovering that...