The Yale Summer Reading Series presented Nalo Hopkinson on June 3, 2008. Nalo Hopkinson, born in Jamaica, has lived in Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana and for the past 30 years in Canada. She is the author of three novels and a short story collection.(Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, the Salt Roads, Skin Folk) as well as editing several fiction anthologies- Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root:Caribbean Fabulist Fiction,Mojo:Conjure Stories.)
Much of her fiction draws on her world of her Caribbean roots and its everyday magic. She is a recipient of the Warner Aspect First Novel Prize, the John W. Campbell Award for the best new writer, the World Fantasy Award and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award.
http://nalohopkinson.com/
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