N. K. Jemisin

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N. K. Jemisin is an African-American female speculative fiction writer. Her fiction explores a wide variety of themes, including but not limited to cultural conflict and oppression, via fantasy and science fictional milieu. She is a former member of the Boston-area writing group "BRAWL", as well as the New York-area groups "The Secret Cabal", "Black Beans", and Altered Fluid. A graduate of the 2002 Viable Paradise writing workshop, she has published a number of short stories and has completed several novels. Her novels The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms (the first two books of the Inheritance Trilogy) were published by Orbit in 2010. The Kingdom of Gods is due for publication in October, 2011.

Names

• N. K. Jemisin (pseudonym)
• Nora Jemisin

Works

Novels

Inheritance Trilogy

• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010)
• The Broken Kingdoms (2010)

Short stories

• "The Effluent Engine", 2010
• "Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters" Postscripts, 2010.
• "Non-Zero Probabilities" Clarkesworld, 2009, nominated for a 2009 Nebula and Hugo Award.
• "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.

Agents

Her novel-length fiction is represented by Lucienne Diver of the Knight Agency.

Awards

• Speculative Literature Foundation's 2004 Travel Grant.
• Nominated for the Fountain Award (2006).
• On the 2006 Recommended Reading list for the Carl Brandon Society.

Further reading

• N.K. Jemisin webpage

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