Nalo Hopkinson, born in Jamaica, past
resident of Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana and the US, now lives and works in Canada.
So it’s probably not unusual that she writes the world-spanning modern myths of
magical realism, science fiction and fantasy, frequently drawing on Caribbean
folklore, language and culture. She is the author of three novels (Brown
Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads) and a short story
collection (Skin Folk), as well as editor and co-editor of four
anthologies of short fiction by other writers.
She is the recipient of
the John W. Campbell Award, the Sunburst Award and the World Fantasy Award. Her
work has also received Honourable Mention in Cuba’s Casa de las Americas Prize,
and has been shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for black writers.
She’s currently working on a new novel set in a non-existent Caribbean
archipelago.
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