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Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson, born in Jamaica, has lived in Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana and for the past 30 years in Canada. She is the author of three novels and a short story collection (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, Skin Folk). She is the editor of fiction anthologies Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Mojo: Conjure Stories. She is the co-editor of fiction anthologies So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction (with Uppinder Mehan) and Tesseracts Nine (with Geoff Ryman). Hopkinson's work
has received Honourable Mention in Cuba's "Casa de las Americas"
literary prize. She is a recipient of the Warner Aspect First Novel
Prize, the
Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for emerging writers, the
John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, the World Fantasy Award, and
the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Her new novel, The New Moon's Arms, is a February 2007 release from Warner/Hachette Books. |
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