Elaine Graham-Leigh is an activist, historian and qualified accountant (because even radical movements need someone doing the books). She is the author of The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade (Boydell and Brewer 2005), A Diet of Austerity, Class, Food and Climate Change (Zero Books 2015), Marx and the Climate Crisis, (Counterfire 2020) and The Caduca (The Conrad Press 2021). She speaks and writes regularly on a range of political issues and her science fiction stories have appeared in zines including Jupiter SF, The Harrow, Bewildering Stories and Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction. Her website is www.redpuffin.net. She lives in north London.