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Fiskio authored Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice: Poetics of Dissent and Repair, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021, which explores intersections of climate disruption, white supremacy, enslavement, settler colonialism, and resistance through expressive practices such as dance, protests, and cooking, alongside works by authors like Kazim Ali, Octavia Butler, Louise Erdrich, Winona LaDuke, Mark Nowak, Simon Ortiz, Jesmyn Ward, and Colson Whitehead. Since 2014, Fiskio has collaborated with the Africatown, Alabama community, securing an NSF conference grant in 2017 with Assistant Professor Chie Sakakibara for a community history workshop and developing the Africatown Digital Archive to preserve oral histories. Fiskio has contributed to securing a $1M Mellon Foundation grant for Oberlin's Food Studies Partnership with Lorain County Community College. Fiskio delivers public lectures, including President's Lectures at Oberlin on topics like frontline communities and environmental repair, and serves on the editorial board of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.