Red Emma’s

Nalo Hopkinson, born in Jamaica, has lived in Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana and Canada. She is the author of nine books of fiction and has edited numerous fiction anthologies. Her writing has received the World Fantasy Award, the John W Campbell Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and has been shortlisted for the James R. Tiptree, Jr. Award (for speculative fiction which explores or expands gender and gender roles). Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Diaz has said that she is "a writer with an imagination most of us would kill for." She was a founding member of the Carl Brandon Society, which exists to foster discussion on race and ethnicity in science fiction and fantasy. She was fiction co-editor with Kristine Ong Muslim for the recent Lightspeed Magazine special issue "People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction." She has been on the jury of the OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature and the James R. Tiptree Jr. Award. She is now a professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside, where she is a member of a faculty research cluster in science fiction. She's currently completing a novel based in a non-existent Caribbean past.Photo: DAVID FINDLAY, 2016