NK JEMISIN

BIODATA

From Iowa City, Iowa

Greatest Hits Jemisin’s first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), took the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and all three volumes of her Broken Earth series have won Hugo Awards.

Random Fact Jemisin’s father, Noah, fed her SF habit. When she was growing up, in the summer months they’d watch classic Star Trek and The Twilight Zone episodes every weeknight at two in the morning.

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