N. K. Jemisin

Nora Keita Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. Her debut novel, ''The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms'', and the subsequent books in her ''Inheritance Trilogy'' received critical acclaim. She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award. The three books of her ''Broken Earth'' series made her the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, as well as the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy. She won a fourth Hugo Award, for Best Novelette, in 2020 for ''Emergency Skin''. Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2020. Provided by Wikipedia