Jenna Hanchey (she/her) is a land-based mermaid who listens to what the birds carry on the wind. She's a British Science Fiction Association award-shortlisted writer and audio narrator. Her fiction, poetry, and artwork explore grief, imagine liberation, center intimacies, and engender hope. She’s an award-winning researcher, whose next book, Decolonial Dreamwork: Africanfuturism and Imagination Beyond Development, is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press in February 2027. Follow her adventures at www.jennahanchey.com.