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Hopkinson has a Masters of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from [[Seton Hill University]], where she studied with [[science fiction]] writer [[James Morrow]] as her mentor and instructor. Hopkinson teaches writing at various programs around the world. She has been a writer-in-residence at [[Clarion Workshop|Clarion East]], [[Clarion West]] and [[Clarion South]]. She is one of the founding members of the [[Carl Brandon Society]]. | Hopkinson has a Masters of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from [[Seton Hill University]], where she studied with [[science fiction]] writer [[James Morrow]] as her mentor and instructor. Hopkinson teaches writing at various programs around the world. She has been a writer-in-residence at [[Clarion Workshop|Clarion East]], [[Clarion West]] and [[Clarion South]]. She is one of the founding members of the [[Carl Brandon Society]]. | ||
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Revision as of 08:58, 18 November 2010
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960 December 20) is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads) and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk sometimes draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.
Hopkinson is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for an Emerging Writer. Brown Girl in the Ring was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1998, and received the Locus Award for Best New Writer. Midnight Robber was shortlisted for the James R. Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award in 2000 and nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2001. Skin Folk received the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in 2003. The Salt Roads received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive exploration of queer issues in speculative fiction for 2004, presented at the 2005 Gaylaxicon. Hopkinson is the daughter of Guyanese poet Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson.
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 for the anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future, and with Geoff Ryman for 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.
Hopkinson has a Masters of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, where she studied with science fiction writer James Morrow as her mentor and instructor. Hopkinson teaches writing at various programs around the world. She has been a writer-in-residence at Clarion East, Clarion West and Clarion South. She is one of the founding members of the Carl Brandon Society.
>==External links==
- Official website hosted by sff.net
- Interview at SFFWorld.com
- Bibliography at SciFan
- Official blog at BlogSpot
- Carl Brandon Society
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