Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson

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A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a “Grand Master” of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives—Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine—project complex futures and complex identities for people of color in terms of race, sex, and gender. Hopkinson has always had a vested interest in expanding racial and ethnic diversity in all facets of speculative fiction from its writers to its readers, and this desire is reflected in her award-winning anthologies. Her work best represents the current and ongoing colored wave of science fiction in the twenty-first century. In twenty-one interviews ranging from 1999 until 2021, Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson reveals a writer of fierce intelligence and humor in love with ideas and concerned with issues of identity. She provides powerful insights on code-switching, race, Afrofuturism, queer identities, sexuality, Caribbean folklore, and postcolonial science fictions, among other things. As a result, the conversations presented here very much demonstrate the uniqueness of her mind and her influence as a writer. Cover Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson Title Copyright Contents Introduction Chronology Nalo Hopkinson: Many Perspectives Speaking in Tongues: An Interview with Science Fiction Writer Nalo Hopkinson Interview: Nalo Hopkinson An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson Interview with Nalo Hopkinson Nalo Hopkinson: Winging It An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson A Conversation with Nalo Hopkinson “Making the Impossible Possible”: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson Breakdown or Breakthrough: A Conversation with Nalo Hopkinson on Race and the Science Fiction Community Conjuring Caribbean Moonbeams: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson “Happy That It’s Here”: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson AE Interviews: Nalo Hopkinson “Correcting the Balance”: Outspoken Interview with Nalo Hopkinson Interview: Nalo Hopkinson Somehow Déclassé: Interview with Nalo Hopkinson Writing from the Body: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson Interview with Nalo Hopkinson Waving at Trains: An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson SLF Portolan Project Interview with Nalo Hopkinson Los Angeles, California, 2019 “Fresh”: A Second Conversation with Nalo Hopkinson on Life, the Academy, Race, and the Science Fiction Community Index About the Editor