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Nora K. Jemisin
BornIowa City, Iowa, United States
Pen nameN.K. Jemisin
OccupationNovelist, psychologist, career counselor
GenreScience fiction, Fantasy

N. K. Jemisin is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger. Her 2010 debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award, the 2011 Hugo Award, and the World Fantasy Award[1] and was ranked #5 on Amazon's "editors' pick" list of the year's best ten works of science fiction and fantasy.[2] Also in 2010, her short story "Non-Zero Probabilities" was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Life

She was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and grew up in New York City and Mobile, Alabama. She lived in Massachusetts for ten years and then moved to New York City.[3]

She attended Tulane University from 1990 to 1994, where she received a B.S. in psychology.[4] She went on to earn her Master of Education from the University of Maryland College Park.

She is a former member of the Boston-area writing group BRAWLers, as well as a current member of Altered Fluid. A graduate of the 2002 Viable Paradise writing workshop,[5] she published a number of short stories and completed several novels. In 2010, her short story "Non-Zero Probabilities" was a finalist for the Hugo[6] and Nebula[7] awards.

Currently, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.[8] In addition to writing fiction, she works as a career counselor.

Works

Her fiction explores a wide variety of themes, including but not limited to cultural conflict and oppression, via fantasy and science-fictional milieu.

Novels

The Inheritance Trilogy

The Dreamblood series

N.K. Jemisin was contracted by Orbit for two books in a series titled The Dreamblood, both of which are expected to be published in 2012.[10] The first book is titled The Killing Moon and the second is The Shadowed Sun.

Short stories

  • "On the Banks of the River Lex," Clarkesworld Magazine, 11/2010
  • "The Effluent Engine," 2010
  • "Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints in the City Beneath the Still Waters," Postscripts, 2010.
  • "The Dancer's War," published in Like Twin Stars: Bisexual Erotic Stories, Circlet Press, 2009.
  • "Non-Zero Probabilities," Clarkesworld Magazine, 2009.
  • "Playing Nice With God's Bowling Ball," Baen's Universe, 2008.
  • "The You Train," Strange Horizons, 2007.
  • "Bittersweet," Abyss and Apex, 2007.
  • "The Narcomancer," Helix, reprinted in Transcriptase, 2007.
  • "The Brides of Heaven," Helix, reprinted in Transcriptase, 2007.
  • "Dragon Cloud Skies," Strange Horizons, 2005. Also an Escape Pod episode
  • "Red Riding-Hood's Child"" Fishnet, 2005.
  • "L'Alchimista Scattered Covered Smothered" (out of print), 2004. Winner of an Honorable Mention from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 18th collection. Also available as an Escape Pod episode
  • "Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows," Ideomancer, 2004.

Awards

  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award[11] and the 2011 Hugo Award and World Fantasy Award;[12] it was also a finalist in the 2010 Goodreads Choice Awards.[13]
  • "Non-Zero Probabilities" was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Short Story in 2010

References

  1. ^ Locus Online News - World Fantasy Nominees and Lifetime Achievement Winners on LocusMag.com, 28 July 2011
  2. ^ http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=br_lf_m_1000628171_grlink_1?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000628171
  3. ^ NK Jemisin: Rites of Passage, Locus Magazine, August 2010
  4. ^ ibid
  5. ^ op. cit. Locus
  6. ^ 2010 Hugo Award Nominees
  7. ^ 2009 Nebula Awards Final Ballot
  8. ^ [1] Fantasy Book Review Interview
  9. ^ [2] Authors' site regarding the trilogy
  10. ^ http://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/12/08/n-k-jemsin-acquisition/
  11. ^ http://www.sfwa.org/2011/02/2010-nebula-nominees/
  12. ^ Renovation Hugo nominee announcement
  13. ^ Goodreads Choice Awards—Fantasy Nominations

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