Fiction with a Mission | Lauren Yero, author of 'Under This Forgetful Sky'

In college, Lauren Yero found a way to marry up her interests in creative writing and ecological science. A handful of years later, Yero wed both those commitments into her debut novel for young adults, titled “Under This Forgetful Sky.”

Yero lives with her husband and two young kids on a budding hobby farm in Madison County. We talk about threading her concerns with climate change into a near-future fantasy set in Chile. We also get into the thick of her creative process—turning disparate kernels of ideas and dreams into a cohesive story—and also why she only sprinkled in slivers of Spanish onto a story featuring South American characters but told in English.