Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her novels – ''Brown Girl in the Ring'' (1998), ''Midnight Robber'' (2000), ''The Salt Roads'' (2003), ''The New Moon's Arms'' (2007) – and short stories such as those in her collection ''Skin Folk'' (2001) often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.

Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies: ''Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction'' and ''Mojo: Conjure Stories''. She was the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan of the 2004 anthology ''So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future'', and with Geoff Ryman co-edited ''Tesseracts 9''.

Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke's novel ''Whylah Falls'' on the CBC's ''Canada Reads 2002''. She was the curator of ''Six Impossible Things'', an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One.

As of 2013, she lives and teaches in Riverside, California. In 2020, Hopkinson was named the 37th Damon Knight Grand Master, in recognition of "lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy". Provided by Wikipedia