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Nalo Hopkinson Comes To Class

by Tom Ficklin | June 4, 2008 8:30 AM | Permalink

Jamaican-born poet Nalo Hopkinson read from her work Tuesday to a creative writing class as part of the Yale Summer Reading Series. Click on the play arrow for a sample.

The background bio:

“Nalo Hopkinson, born in Jamaica, has lived in Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana and for the past 30 years in Canada. She is the author of three novels and a short story collection.(Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, the Salt Roads, Skin Folk) as well as editing several fiction anthologies- Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Mojo:Conjure Stories.)

“Much of her fiction draws on her world of her Caribbean roots and its everyday magic. She is a recipient of the Warner Aspect First Novel Prize, the John W. Campbell Award for the best new writer, the World Fantasy Award and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award.”