Hopkinson, Nalo

Nalo Hopkinson is the author of "The New Moon s Arms", "The Salt Roads", "Midnight Robber", and "Brown Girl in the Ring", among many others. She has won numerous awards, including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada s Sunburst Award for fantasy literature. Her award-winning short fiction collection "Skin Folk" was selected for the 2002 "New York Times" Summer Reading List and was one of the "New York Times" Best Books of the Year. Currently, she is a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside.