Nalo Hopkinson
“Nalo Hopkinson is a writer of speculative fiction, an artist, and creative writing professor. Her debut novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her second novel, Midnight Robber, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel while her book Skin Folk won the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. The Salt Roads received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award and in 2008, The New Moon’s Arms received the Prix Aurora Award. The novel also won the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, making Hopkinson the first author to receive the Sunburst Award twice. Having previously taught creative writing at the University of California Riverside, she is now a professor at University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing. Born in Jamaica, Hopkinson lived for years in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago before moving to Toronto. She now lives in Vancouver.
