Chicago poet, playwright and educator Kristiana Colon is an ensemble member of Teatro Luna, the all-Latina theater company in Chicago. Show Me the Well is her radio play for After Water, a fusion of science, art and journalism that asks writer

After Water Fiction: The Way of the River

Sep 15th, 2014 5m 35s

Roxane Gay lives and writes in the Midwest. She is the author of “Ayiti,” “An Untamed State,” and “Bad Feminist,” a New York Times bestseller. “The Way of the River” is Gay’s contribution to After Water, a WBEZ Chicago flash fiction project th

After Water: An interview with author Tim Akimoff

Aug 1st, 2014 10m 34s

"Water Men" by Tim Akimoff is the story of a political struggle over water in the Great Lakes region. A father tells his child about how the Great Lakes have shaped their family for generations before the world they know is changed forever. H

After Water Fiction: Water Men

Jul 30th, 2014 13m 53s

What happens 100 years from now when, if climate change has brought us to a point where water has become one of our scarcest resources, and more precious than oil or gold? We've asked fiction writers to imagine the Great Lakes region a century

After Water: An interview with author Rebecca Adams Wright

Jul 30th, 2014 7m 8s

In "Straws," the Great Lakes are being siphoned away by greedy private interests. A group of eco-terrorists hatch a plan to return the water to the places slowly dying of thirst. Author Rebecca Adams Wright tells us about the current legal ba

After Water Fiction: Straws

Jul 29th, 2014 7m 54s

After Water: An interview with author Peter Orner

Jul 29th, 2014 8m 15s

In his story "The Last Cribkeeper," Peter Orner introduces us to Harry Osgood--the last man to work on Chicago's water cribs. Harry spends his days walking along the shores of Lake Michigan, peering out at the water that has shaped the city's i

After Water Fiction: The Last Cribkeeper

Jul 29th, 2014 8m 48s

After Water: An interview with author Tricia Bobeda

Jul 28th, 2014 11m 48s

In "The Floating City of New Chicago," we see a Chicago divided by class...and water. The wealthy have fled the city for a secret island on Lake Michigan. The "wet-collar" workers have been left behind to do the city's dirtiest jobs. Author T

After Water Fiction: The Floating City of New Chicago

Jul 28th, 2014 8m 20s

After Water: An interview with author Abby Geni

Jul 24th, 2014 8m 24s

In "World After Water", Abby Geni imagines a city flooded by toxic water too poisonous to drink. Four young boys resort to stealing filtered water from their wealthy neighbors in their struggle to survive. Geni wrote her story after spending

After Water Fiction: World After Water

Jul 24th, 2014 9m 42s

After Water: An interview with author Max Andrew Dubinsky

Jul 23rd, 2014 6m 4s

Author Max Andrew Dubinsky imagines a future world where people in California are plagued by drought and rising sea levels. In hopes of finding a better life, some of them turn their eyes towards the Great Lakes region.Dubinsky wrote his stor

After Water Fiction: Thirst

Jul 23rd, 2014 12m 14s

(Flickr/James Marvin Phelps)What happens 100 years from now when, if climate change has brought us to a point where water has become one of our scarcest resources, and more precious than oil or gold? We've asked fiction writers to imagine the

After Water: An interview with author Nnedi Okorafor

Jul 23rd, 2014 9m 51s

Award-winning, science-fiction author Nnedi Okorafor wrote a story set on Chicago's Rainbow Beach, decades in the future. After a conversation with a Great Lakes expert, she imagined a future world where the water is contaminated and Chicagoan

After Water Fiction: Poison Fish

Jul 23rd, 2014 12m 15s

(Flickr/surfergirl1972)What happens 100 years from now when, if climate change has brought us to a point where water has become one of our scarcest resources, and more precious than oil or gold? We've asked fiction writers to imagine the Gre

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