The Necessary Sex Scene: Intimacy as Craft in N.K. Jemisin&#8217;s <i>The Fifth Season</i>

Tiffany Fritz is a queer and disabled writer from the American Southwest. Her work can be found in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Hayden's Ferry Review, the Journal of Science Fiction and Latino Studies. They received their MFA in fiction from the University of Kansas, where they worked on Cottonwood Magazine.