Nalo Hopkinson

**Nalo Hopkinson** (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. She lives and teaches in Riverside, California. Her novels (_Brown Girl in the Ring_, _Midnight Robber_, _The Salt Roads_, _The New Moon's Arms_) and short stories such as those in her collection _Skin Folk_ often use Caribbean history and language. Hopkinson's favorite writers include Samuel R. Delany, Tobias S. Buckell, and Charles Saunders.

## Awards

Hopkinson won the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for Emerging Writers.

_Brown Girl in the Ring_ was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1998, and received the Locus Award for Best First Novel.

_Skin Folk_ received the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in 2003.

### Novels

- _Brown Girl in the Ring_ (1998)
- _Midnight Robber_ (2000)
- _The Salt Roads_ (2003)
- _The New Moon's Arms_ (2007)
- _The Chaos_ (2012) (Young adult fiction)
- _Sister Mine_ (2013)

### Collections and anthologies

- _Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction_ (2000, anthology)
- _Skin Folk_ (2001) (short stories)
- _Mojo: Conjure Stories_ (2003, anthology)
- _So Long Been Dreaming_ (2004, anthology)
- _Report From Planet Midnight_ (2012) (short stories, interview and speech)
- _Falling in Love With Hominids_ (2015) (short stories)

### Short fiction

- "Slow Cold Chick" in anthology _Northern Frights 5_ (1998)
- "A Habit of Waste" in anthology _Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism_ (1999)
- "Precious" in anthology _Silver Birch, Blood Moon_ (1999)
- "The Glass Bottle Trick" in anthology _Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction_ (2000)
- "Greedy Choke Puppy" and  "Ganger (Ball Lightning)" in anthology _Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora_
- "Midnight Robber" (excerpt from novel) reprinted in _Young Bloods: Stories from_ Exile _1972–2001_ (2001)
- "Delicious Monster" in anthology _Queer Fear II_ (2002)
- "Shift" in journal _Conjunctions: the New Wave Fabulists_.
- "Herbal" in _The Bakkanthology_
- "Whose Upward Flight I Love" reprinted in _African Voices_
- "The Smile on the Face" in anthology _Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks_ (2004)

### Comic Book Series

- _The Sandman Universe: House of Whispers_ (DC/Vertigo) (2018- )

## Other websites

- Bibliographies
- Bibliography  on Scifan.com
- Biography, bibliography, & appreciation by G. E. Rutledge

- Interviews
- "Nalo Hopkinson: As Magic Does" excerpt from Locus interview (2013)
- "Nalo Hopkinson's science fiction and real-life family" by Mindy Farabee at the _L.A. Times_ (2013)
- Interview on SFFWorld.com
- Interview on _Locus_
- "Nalo Hopkinson uses SF to probe the inner and outer worlds of alienation"  by David Soyka on SciFi.com (2001)
- A Conversation With Nalo Hopkinson  on the SF Site
- Avni Sejpal, "Waving at Trains: An interview with Nalo Hopkinson", _Boston Review_, October 18, 2017

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Nalo Hopkinson
- **image**: Worldcon 75 in Helsinki 2017 29.jpg
- **caption**: Nalo Hopkinson in 2007
- **birth place**: Kingston, Jamaica
- **occupation**: Writer, editor
- **language**: English
- **nationality**: Canadian
- **citizenship**: Canada
- **education**: Master of Arts
- **alma mater**: Seton Hill University
- **genre**: Science fiction, fantasy
- **notableworks**: _Brown Girl in the Ring (novel), Brown Girl in the Ring_
_The Salt Roads_
_Skin Folk_
- **awards**: Prix Aurora Awards, Prix Aurora Award,
Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, Gaylactic Spectrum Award,
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer,
Locus Award,
Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic,
World Fantasy Award