Nalo hopkinson biography
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Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica, and spent the first 16 years of her life in Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and the US before her family moved to Canada. She writes science fiction and fantasy, exploring their potential for centering non-normative voices and experiences. Her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest in She has published six novels and numerous short stories. Her writing has received the John W. Campbell Award, Locus Magazine&#;s Best First Novel Award, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the World Fantasy Award, the Andre Norton (Nebula) Award, the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, the Inkpot Award, the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Award, and Canada&#;s Prix/Aurora Award. From to , she was the lead writer of &#;House of Whispers&#; (co-writer Dan Watters), a series of comics published by DC Comics and set in the universe of Neil Gaiman&#;s &#;Sandman.&#; She has received honorary Dr of Letters degrees from Anglia Ruskin University and the Ontario College of Art and Design University.
Hopkinson has been a Writer-in-Residence a number of times at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers&#; Workshops in San Diego, California and Seattle, Washington. She was the editor of the fiction antho
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Nalo Hopkinson author biography, plus links to books by Nalo Hopkinson.
Nalo Hopkinson
Internationally renowned Nalo Hopkinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and also spent her childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto, Canada, when she was sixteen. In , Hopkinson won the Warner Aspect contest for Brown Girl in the Ring, and she received the John W. Campbell and Locus Awards for Best First Novel. Her collection Skin Folk received the World Fantasy and Sunburst Awards. The Salt Roads received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive exploration of queer issues in speculative fiction. The New Moon's Arms also won the Prix Aurora and Sunburst Awards, making Hopkinson the first author to receive the award twice. In , Hopkinson was named the Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, and is the youngest and the first woman of African descent to receive this lifetime honor. As a professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside, she was a member of the Speculative Futures Collective. Hopkinson is currently a professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, and she lives in Vancouver, Canada.
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