Michael Roch is a science-fiction writer and screenwriter, born in 1987 in Lyon. His new novel, Les Choses immobiles, incandescence of a maroon literature, is published by Label Mu (2023). Since 2015, he has led several writing workshops on the theme of Afrofuturism—a literary movement developing Afrocentric counter-dystopias—in prisons and universities. He lives in Martinique.