Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson is a novelist, editor, and short story writer. Her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy features diverse characters and the mixing of folklore into her works. Hopkinson won the Warner Aspect First Novel contest for Brown Girl in the Ring, as well as the John W. Campbell and Locus Awards. Her novel Midnight Robber was a New York Times Notable Book and she has also received the Spectrum, Sunburst, Campbell, and Prix Aurora awards. Hopkinson currently teaches in the creative writing department at the University of California, Riverside.