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.
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| Born | 20 December 1960 Kingston, Jamaica |
| Occupation | Writer, editor |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canada |
| Education | Master of Arts |
| Alma mater | Seton Hill University |
| Genre | Science fiction, fantasy |
| Notable works | Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) Skin Folk (2001) The Salt Roads (2003) |
| Notable awards | Prix Aurora Award; Gaylactic Spectrum Award; Inkpot Award John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Locus Award, Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic; World Fantasy Award |
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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".