K.F. Hartford
Some questions are too old to answer. Others are too important to stop asking.
What makes us human? Why do we create beauty when survival does not require it? What happens when the things we build begin to reshape the people who built them? And how much of the future is really something new—and how much is humanity repeating itself in unfamiliar forms?
These are the questions that draw me to fiction.
Off the Page
Before writing fiction, K.F. Hartford spent years studying the ways people learn, communicate, create meaning, and understand the worlds around them. She holds a Ph.D. focused on technology in education and second-language acquisition and taught English at the university level before turning her attention more fully to writing.
That academic life left its fingerprints on her fiction—but so did museums, old books, forgotten histories, architecture, travel, art, technology, and a lifelong tendency to ask questions that rarely have simple answers.
She is particularly fascinated by the places where disciplines collide: history with futurism, beauty with violence, technology with humanity, and progress with the stubbornly ancient impulses that follow human beings into every new age.
Hartford lives and writes in Oregon. She is currently at work on Iterations of Humanity, a literary speculative novel about a future that has found extraordinary new ways to preserve the past—and some very old ways to exploit it.
"For me, speculative fiction is not an escape from the real world.
It is another way of examining it."