Nalo Hopkinson
<DIV><B>Nalo Hopkinson</B> was born in Jamaica and has lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. The daughter of a poet/playwright and a library technician, she has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada's Sunburst Award for literature of the fantastic. Her award-winning short fiction collection <I>Skin Folk</I> was selected for the 2002 <I>New York Times</I> Summer Reading List and was one of the <I>New York Times</I> Best Books of the Year. Hopkinson is also the author of <I>The New Moon's Arms, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber,</I> and <I>Brown Girl in the Ring</I>. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and splits her time between California, USA, and Toronto, Canada.</DIV>