White desk with flowers and notebook, which Francesca Varela uses to write environmental novels

Francesca Varela

Nature Writer & Novelist

White desk that Francesca Varela uses to write environmental fiction

NATURE ARTWORK

I draw plants and animals of the Pacific Northwest! Check out my artwork on Redbubble!

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Author Francesca Varela holding up a copy of her book, Blue Mar, in front of a blue background

ENVIRONMENTAL NOVELS

My environmentally themed novels explore topics like climate change, pollution, and the human place in nature.

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White desk and notebook that Francesca Varela uses to write environmental fiction

NATURE WRITING BLOG

I write weekly blog posts celebrating the beauty of the Pacific Northwest through poetry, prose-poetry, and lyrical narratives.

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Award-Winning Novels About the Natural World

My books range from realistic fiction to sci-fi, taking readers from Oregon forests to dystopian trash islands to alien planets. I’m honored to be the recipient of the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Award for Science Fiction and the 2014 Moonbeam Bronze Medal for Best First Book.

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Francesca Varela's novels on a shelf with pink flowers

BROWSE BOOKS

Looking for your next read? Check out my environmental novels!

  • Snow Clouds

    1–2 minutes

    The clouds are threaded with mountain-pink, andthe kind of muted purple that reflects from pondwater as it lies still at the moment of dusk, and the ravens blink the snow away, calling in their Cascade dialects, throaty songsthat catchin the fir needles like sunlight, and the snow falls in patches between the canopy and atop

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