20 Feb 2021

Nalo Hopkinson

Black Authors post, Day 20

Black Authors post, Day 20

Today’s author is science fiction/fantasy author Nalo Hopkinson.

Nalo was born in 1960, in Kingston, Jamaica. Her family moved several times during her childhood, and she lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada growing up.

Nalo’s love of books was cemented at an early age by her literary family; her mother was a library technician and her father a poet and playwright. She grew up on folk and fairy tales. Her family moved to Toronto, Canada, when she was 16 years old.

Nalo has a BA and MA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hall University. She started writing in the early 90’s, starting with short fiction, and then attended Clarion Writers Workshop. Her first book, Brown Girl In The Ring, was published in 1998.

Nalo has won several awards, including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best New Writer, a Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Sunburst Award, and has been nominated for the HUGO Awards and the Nebula Award.

Nalo has taught at various writing programs around the world, including Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop at UCSD. She is now Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.

Links to some of my favorite books by Nalo Hopkinson:

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Some links:

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