David M. Higgins is a Senior Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he teaches in the English Department at Inver Hills College in Minnesota. He is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood (2021), and his article, “Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction,” won the 2012 SFRA Innovative Research Award. David’s scholarship has been published in journals such as American Literature, Science Fiction Studies, Paradoxa, and Extrapolation, and his work has appeared in edited volumes such as The Cambridge History of Science Fiction and The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction. David has been a featured speaker on NPR’s radio show On Point, and he serves as the Second Vice President for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA).