About Nina Munteanu

Nina Munteanu is a Canadian ecologist and internationally published novelist of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to eight published novels, Nina has written award-nominated short stories, articles and non-fiction books, which have been translated into several languages throughout the world. Recognition for her work includes the Midwest Book Review Reader’s Choice Award, finalist for Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Award, the SLF Fountain Award, and The Delta Optimist Reviewers Choice. She hosts the Age of Water Podcast with co-host Claudia Murgan and teaches writing at the University of Toronto and George Brown College. Her recent “cli-fi”/science fiction release, A Diary in the Age of Water, is about four generations of women and their relationship to water in a rapidly changing world. Nina shares her time between Toronto and Vancouver. 

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From the publisher:

Centuries from now, in a post-climate change dying boreal forest of what used to be northern  Canada, Kyo, a young acolyte called to service in the Exodus, discovers a diary that may provide  her with the answers to her yearning for Earth’s past—to the Age of Water, when the “Water Twins” destroyed humanity in hatred—events that have plagued her nightly in dreams. Looking  for answers to this holocaust—and disturbed by her macabre longing for connection to the  Water Twins—Kyo is led to the diary of a limnologist from the time just prior to the destruction. This gritty memoir describes a near-future Toronto in the grips of severe water scarcity during  a time when China owns the USA and the USA owns Canada. The diary spans a twenty-year period in the mid-twenty-first century of 33-year-old Lynna, a single mother who works in Toronto for CanadaCorp, an international utility that controls everything about water, and who witnesses disturbing events that she doesn’t realize will soon lead to humanity’s demise. A Diary in the Age of Water follows the climate-induced journey of Earth and humanity through four generations of women, each with a unique relationship to water, in a world that is rapidly and incomprehensibly changing. 

Praise

“In poetic prose with sober factual basis, Munteanu transmutes a harrowing dystopia into a transcendentalist origin myth. An original cautionary tale that combines a family drama with an environmental treatise.”

KIRKUS Reviews

“The prose here is beautiful and purposeful in the tradition of environmentally and socially minded novelists such as Ursula K. LeGuin and Margaret Atwood.”

Winnipeg Free Press

“A chilling but believable portrayal of what might happen as fresh water becomes scarcer.”

Miramichi Reader