N. K. Jemisin

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N. K. Jemisin
A picture of N. K. Jemisin.
Born Noira Keita Jemisin
(1972-09-19)September 19, 1972
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Pen name N. K. Jemisin
Occupation Novelist, psychologist, career counselor
Language English
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Website
nkjemisin.com

Noira Keita Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is a politically left-wing African-American writer of speculative fiction. Her fiction and blogs explore a wide variety of themes, centering around cultural oppression mostly by white men of other groups and individuals.[1] These fictional men can sometimes redeem themselves by adopting the paradigms of progressive culture, however. In 2010, Jemisin's short story Non-Zero Probabilities was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Best Short Story Awards. As of August 2022, the three books of her Broken Earth series have made her the only author to have been granted the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years. However, these awards are viewed as having been mostly granted for left-wing political reasons by right-wing science fiction writers and critics.

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. Its sequels, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky, then won the Hugo Awards for best novel in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Culturally, these awards helped cement the perception of the World Science Fiction Society as a progressive organization, focusing on social and cultural politics instead of on speculative science. Jemisin herself was a central figure in the exodus of right-wing writers from the Society.

Jemisin has been described as sympathetic to Cultural Marxism. She is a denier of human biodiversity, and considers any such talk problematic bordering on unacceptable.[4]

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.[5] Jemisin attended Tulane University from 1990 to 1994, where she received a B.S. in psychology.[5] 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,[6] Jemisin has published a number of short stories and completed several novels. Jemisin was a member of the Boston-area writing group BRAWLers,[7] and is a member of Altered Fluid, a speculative fiction critique group.[7]

She was a co-Guest of Honor of the 2014 WisCon science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin.[8] She was the Author Guest of Honor at Arisia 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.[9]

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 (SFWA) 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 "a self-described misogynist, racist, anti-Semite, and a few other flavors of asshole" and noted that silence about these issues was the same as enabling them, and politically unacceptable. Beale responded by calling her an "educated but ignorant savage."[10] A link to his comments was tweeted on the SFWA Authors Twitter feed, and Beale was subsequently expelled from the organization.[11]

In January 2016, Jemisin started writing "Otherworldly", a bimonthly column for The New York Times. 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.[12] In the following year, a feminist article in Bustle praised Jemisin as the "writer every woman needs to be reading".

Personal life

Jemisin lives and works in Brooklyn, New York,[13] along with her cat King Ozymandias (Ozzy).

She is first cousin once removed to stand-up comic and television host W. Kamau Bell.

Awards

Won

Nominated

Bibliography

Novels

Inheritance Trilogy

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Main article: The Inheritance Trilogy (N.K. Jemisin)

A novella entitled The Awakened Kingdom set as a sequel to the Inheritance Trilogy was released along with an omnibus of the trilogy on December 9, 2014.[23]

A triptych entitled Shades in Shadow was released on July 28, 2015. It contained three short stories, including a prequel to the trilogy.[24]

Dreamblood Duology

Broken Earth series

Short stories

  • "L'Alchimista", published in Scattered, Covered, Smothered, Two Cranes Press, 2004. Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 18th collection. Also available as an Escape Pod episode
  • "Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows", Ideomancer, 2004.
  • "Cloud Dragon Skies", Strange Horizons, 2005. Also an Escape Pod episode
  • "Red Riding-Hood's Child", Fishnet, 2005.
  • "The You Train", Strange Horizons, 2007.
  • "Bittersweet", Abyss & Apex Magazine, 2007.
  • "The Narcomancer", Helix, reprinted in Transcriptase, 2007.
  • "The Brides of Heaven", Helix, reprinted in Transcriptase, 2007.
  • "Playing Nice With God's Bowling Ball", Baen's Universe, 2008.
  • "The Dancer's War", published in Like Twin Stars: Bisexual Erotic Stories, Circlet Press, 2009.
  • "Non-Zero Probabilities", Clarkesworld Magazine, 2009.
  • "Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints in the City Beneath the Still Waters", Postscripts, 2010.
  • "On the Banks of the River Lex", Clarkesworld Magazine, 11/2010
  • "The Effluent Engine", published in Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, Torquere Press, 2011
  • "The Trojan Girl", Weird Tales, 2011
  • "Valedictorian", published in After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, Hyperion Book CH, 2012

Short Story Collections

Nonfiction

References

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