Lue Palmer

Lue Palmer is an environmental journalist and writer of fiction who writes about Black relationships to nature, the fantastic in everyday life, and the retelling of history. They were a 2025 literary resident at A Studio in the Woods in Louisiana. During the residency they worked on the final third of their novel, The Hungry River, a speculative climate story set across Nigeria, Jamaica and Louisiana. They have received the Lynton Prize for Book Writing from Columbia University, the Journey Prize, and the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship.