MacKenzie Patterson (she/her) is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Boston University, where she specializes in science fiction, race and ethnicity studies, and feminist science and technology studies. Focusing on texts from the nineteenth century to the present, her dissertation explores how reproductive commodification and extraction are justified using technological discourses. She uses speculative narratives that merge the ‘mother’ with the ‘machine’ as critical lenses for examining fantasies of reproductive futurity and control. When not writing or teaching, MacKenzie enjoys sewing, making jewelry, hanging out with her cat, and watching horror films.