Lisa Yaszek is Regents’ Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, where she explores science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures. Recent examples of her award-winning books include Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (2016); Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century (2021); and The Future is Female! Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women series (2018-present). Yaszek’s ideas about how we represent space and space exploration in popular culture have been featured in venues including Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and Space.com, and she has been an expert commentator for CBS Sunday Morning, the BBC4, Turner Classic Movies, and the AMC miniseries James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction. Additionally, Yaszek is a past president of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) and a founding member of the Eugie Award for Short Speculative Fiction. In 2024, she received the SFRA Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the study of science, technology, and science fiction across media.