Author Nalo Hopkinson will read from her work on Friday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 109, at Hamilton College as part of the Kirkland Project series "Technology, Science, and Democracy: What's at Stake?" It is free and open to the public.
Hopkinson has published three novels and a collection of short stories (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads and Skin Folk), as well as edited two fiction anthologies (Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction and Mojo: Conjure Stories). She is a recipient of the John W. Campbell Award and the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award. She has been a juror for the James R. Tiptree Memorial Award (for speculative fiction which explores gender and gender roles), the Phillip K. Dick Award, and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Born in the Caribbean, she makes her home in Toronto, Canada.
Nalo Hopkinson's visit is co-sponsored by the departments of comparative literature and English and the Faculty for Women's Concerns.
