Nalo Hopkinson Biography | Wiki
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. She is the writer of novels such as Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber, and The New Moon’s Arms. Also, Nalo has written short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often drawing on Caribbean history and language, as well as its traditions of oral and written storytelling.
Nalo has edited two fiction anthologies titled Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction and Mojo: Conjure Stories. She served as the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan for the anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future, and also with Geoff Ryman for Tesseracts 9.
Nalo defended George Elliott Clarke’s novel titled Whylah Falls on the CBC’s Canada Reads 2002. She served as the curator of an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction titled Six Impossible Things, on CBC Radio One. She currently teaches in Riverside, California. Nalo was named the 37th Damon Knight Grand Master in 2020.
Nalo Hopkinson Age
She was born on December 20, 1960, in Kingston, Jamaica. Nalo is 61 years old.
Nalo Hopkinson Height
She is a woman of above-average stature. Nola stands at the height of 5 ft 6 in ( Approx 1.68m).
Nalo Hopkinson Family
She was born to her father and mother in Kingston, Jamaica. Her parents are Freda and Muhammed Abdur-Rahman Slade Hopkinson. Nalo grew up in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada.[4] She was brought up in a literary environment; her mother served as a library technician while her father was a Guyanese poet, playwright, and actor. He taught English and Latin as well.
By virtue of this upbringing, Nalo had access to writers such as Derek Walcott during her formative years. She was able to read Kurt Vonnegut’s works by the age of six. Her writing is influenced by the fairy and also folk tales she read at a very young age. They included Afro-Caribbean stories such as Anansi and Western works such as Gulliver’s Travels, the Iliad, and the Odyssey. Nalo was known to have read the works of Shakespeare around the time she was reading Homer.
During her father’s tenure at Yale University, she briefly lived in Connecticut. However, Nalo has said that at the age of 16, the culture shock from her move to Toronto from Guyana was something “to which still not fully reconciled”. From 1977 to 2011., Nalo lived in Toronto prior to moving to Riverside, California where she works as a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside.
Nalo Hopkinson Education
She has learning disabilities but this has not stopped Nalo from earning a Master of Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. While in college, Nalo studied with her mentor and instructor, science fiction writer James Morrow.
Nalo Hopkinson Husband
The Canadian author is a bit secretive when it comes to matters of her personal life. The 61=-year-old Seton Hill University graduate has not publicly shared her current marital status or her past relationships/affairs.
Nalo Hopkinson Midnight Robber
Her science fiction bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) titled Midnight Robber was published in 2000. The novel was named after a Trinidadian traditional Carnival/Mas character. It incorporates a number of characters and stories from Caribbean and Yoruba cultures such as Anansi, Papa Bois, Dry Bones, Duppy, Obeah, Tamosi (Kabo Tano), J’Ouvert (from Trinidad Carnival), douens, and Eshu.
Nalo Hopkinson Skin Folk
Her story collection titled Skin Folk was published in 2001. It won Nalo the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Story Collection. Skin Folk was also selected in 2002 for the New York Times Summer Reading List. Apart from that, it became one of the New York Times’ Best Books of the Year. The story collection has been reviewed by David Soyka (2002), “Skin Folk” (review). SF Site.
Nalo Hopkinson The Salt Roads
Her novel titled The Salt Roads was published in 2003. The novel has been categorized as historical fiction, speculative fiction, science fiction, as well as magical realism. Jewell Parker Rhode called the novel “a fabulous, wonderful, inventive novel… a fine celebration of African heritage.” However, it has been said that The Salt Roads “may have left its sci-fi/fantasy roots behind.” The novel was warmly received as a work that was quintessential in many respects not the least of which was its “re-creation of independent Black space”
Nalo Hopkinson Books
Novels
– 1998 Brown Girl in the Ring
– 2000 Midnight Robber
– 2003 The Salt Roads
– 2007 The New Moon’s Arms
– 2012 The Chaos (Young adult fiction)
– 2013 Sister Mine
Collections and anthologies
2000 Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction ( anthology)
– 2001 Skin Folk (short stories)
– 2003 Mojo: Conjure Stories (anthology)
– 2004 So Long Been Dreaming ( anthology)
– 2012 Report From Planet Midnight (short stories, interview and speech)
– 2015 Falling in Love With Hominids (short stories)
Nalo Hopkinson Short Stories
Short fiction (first publications only)
– 1998 “Slow Cold Chick” in anthology Northern Frights 5
– 1999 “A Habit of Waste” in anthology Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism
– 1999 “Precious” in anthology Silver Birch, Blood Moon
– 2000 “The Glass Bottle Trick” in anthology Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
– 2001 “Midnight Robber” (excerpt from novel) reprinted in Young Bloods: Stories from Exile 1972–2001
– 2002 “Delicious Monster” in anthology Queer Fear II
– “Shift” in journal Conjunctions: the New Wave Fabulists.
– “Herbal” in The Bakkanthology
– “Whose Upward Flight I Love” reprinted in African Voices
– 2004 “The Smile on the Face” in anthology Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks
Nalo Hopkinson Net Worth
She is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor who has accumulated an estimated net worth of $3,596,812
How Old Is Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo is 61 years old. She was born on December 20, 1960, in Kingston, Jamaica.
Who Is Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. She is the writer of novels such as Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber, and The New Moon’s Arms.