![]() ![]() Hopkinson currently teaches in the Creative Writing department at the University of California, Riverside. The cool part about it is, the writing is pretty good!” ( Locus, September 2013) Her view on these dark periods can be both realistic and humorous: ∻ut every so often I’ll go through an old notebook or find a file I don’t recognize and open it up, and there’s a page or two of writing that I did during that time that I don not remember. She spent years too sick to read or write, and was sometimes homeless. Though she has published multiple works, Hopkinson has faced many obstacles, including suffering from anemia and fibromyalgia. ![]() Her novel, Midnight Robber, was a New York Times Notable Book and she has also received the Spectrum, Sunburst, Campbell, and Prix Aurora awards. Critic Jason Heller says her stories dazzle with a hard-won sense of hope. Hopkinson won the Warner Aspect First Novel contest for Brown Girl in the Ring, as well as the John W. Nalo Hopkinsons new collection mixes up her Afro-Caribbean influences with classic literature and historical fantasy. Her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy features diverse characters and the mixing of folklore into her works. World Fantasy Award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson was born in Kingston, Jamaica and also spent her childhood in Trinidad and Guyana before her family moved to Toronto when she was sixteen. ![]()
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