Nalo Hopkinson, born in Jamaica, past resident of Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana and the US, now lives and works in Canada. So it’s probably not unusual that she writes the world-spanning modern myths of magical realism, science fiction and fantasy, frequently drawing on Caribbean folklore, language and culture. She is the author of three novels
(Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber,
The Salt Roads) and a short story collection (Skin
Folk), as well as editor and co-editor of four anthologies of short fiction by other writers. She is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award, the Sunburst Award and the World Fantasy Award. Her work has also received Honourable Mention in Cuba’s Casa de las Americas Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for black writers. She’s currently working on a new novel set in a non-existent Caribbean archipelago.