N. K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin
A picture of N. K. Jemisin.
Born Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Pen name N. K. Jemisin
Occupation Novelist, psychologist, career counselor
Language English
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Website
nkjemisin.com

N. K. Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger. Her fiction explores a wide variety of themes, including cultural conflict and oppression, via fantasy and science-fictional milieu.[1] In 2010, Jemisin's short story Non-Zero Probabilities was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Best Short Story Awards.

Jemisin's debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award, and short-listed for the James Tiptree Jr. Award. In 2011, it was nominated for the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award,[2] and Locus Award, winning the 2011 Locus Award for Best First Novel.[3] The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms also won the Sense of Gender Awards in 2011.

In 2016, N. K. Jemisin's novel The Fifth Season won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Early life

N. K. Jemisin 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.[4] Jemisin 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.

Career

A graduate of the 2002 Viable Paradise writing workshop,[5] Jemisin has published a number of short stories and completed several novels. Jemisin was a member of the Boston-area writing group BRAWLers,[6] and is a member of Altered Fluid, a speculative fiction critique group.[6]

In May 2013 it was announced that she would be co-Guest of Honor of the 2014 WisCon science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin.[7] She was the Author Guest of Honor at Arisia 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.[8]

During her delivery of the Guest of Honour speech at the 2013 Continuum in Australia, Jemisin pointed out that 10% of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SWFA) membership voted for alt-right writer Theodore Beale (also known as Vox Day) in his bid for the SFWA presidential position. She went on to call Beale "racist, misogynistic, and hateful" and noted that silence about these issues was the same as enabling them. Beale responded by calling her an "educated but ignorant savage."[9] A link to his comments was tweeted on the SFWA Authors Twitter feed, and Beale was subsequently expelled from the organization.[10]

In May 2016, Jemisin mounted a Patreon campaign which raised sufficient funding to allow her to quit her job as a counseling psychologist and focus full-time on her writing.[11]

Personal life

Jemisin lives and works in Brooklyn, New York,[12] along with her cat King Ozymandias (Ozzy).

Ozymandias overlooking his domain.

Awards

Won

Nominated

Bibliography

Novels

A novella entitled The Awakened Kingdom set in the Inheritance trilogy was released along with an omnibus of the trilogy on December 9, 2014.[16]

A triptych entitled Shades in Shadow was released July 28, 2015. It contained three short stories, including a prequel to the trilogy.[17]

Dreamblood series

The Broken Earth trilogy

Other

Short stories

Nonfiction

References

  1. ↑ "An Interview With N.K. Jemisin on The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms". Orbit Books.
  2. ↑ "World Fantasy Nominees and Lifetime Achievement Winners". Locus Online News. 28 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Locus Awards 2011 Winners". Locus Online.
  4. 1 2 "N.K. Jemisin: Rites of Passage". Locus Magazine. 18 August 2010.
  5. ↑ "N.K. Jemisin: Rites of Passage". Locus. 18 August 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  6. 1 2 Jones, Jeremy L. C. "Even the Best Stories Have Flaws: Inside Altered Fluid". Clarkesworld Magazine.
  7. ↑ "Announcing WisCon 38's Guests of Honor: Hiromi Goto and N.K. Jemisin" A Momentary Taste of WisCon 37 (Elizabeth Stone, ed.) Issue #4 (May 26, 2013), p. 2
  8. ↑ "Guest of Honor Bios". Arisia 2015.
  9. ↑ El-Mohtar, Amal (13 June 2013). "Calling for the Expulsion of Theodore Beale from SFWA". Retrieved 14 Jan 2016.
  10. ↑ "SFWA Board Votes to Expel Beale". Locus. 14 August 2013.
  11. 1 2 3 Kehe, Jason (7 June 2016). "WIRED Book Club: Fantasy Writer N.K. Jemisin on the Weird Dreams That Fuel Her Stories". Wired. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  12. ↑ Payne, Marshall (28 June 2011). "Nebula Awards 2010 Interview: N.K. Jemisin". SFWA. Retrieved 14 Jan 2016.
  13. ↑ "2016 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  14. ↑ "William L. Crawford - IAFA Fantasy Award 2011". Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  15. ↑ "The Inheritance Trilogy". Nkjemisin.com.
  16. ↑ "So, about that Seekrit Project I've been working on…". Nkjemisin.com. 30 April 2014.
  17. ↑ "Now it can be told!". Nkjemisin.com. 25 June 2015.
  18. ↑ Das, Indrapramit (2 May 2012). "In Dreams: N.K. Jemisin's The Killing Moon". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  19. ↑ "Mass Effect is getting four spin-off novels bridging the gap to Andromeda". Eurogamer. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  20. ↑ Jemisin, N. K.; Valentine, Genevieve; San Juan, Eric; Hasan, Zaki (2011). Segal, Stephen H., ed. Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture. Quirk Books. ISBN 9781594745270.

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