Nalo Hopkinson is
the author of The New Moon’s Arms, The Salt Roads, Midnight Robber, and Brown
Girl in the Ring, among many others. She has won numerous awards, including
the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada’s Sunburst
Award for fantasy literature. Her award-winning short fiction collection Skin Folk was selected for the 2002 New York Times Summer Reading List and
was one of the New York Times Best
Books of the Year. Currently, she is a professor of creative writing at the
University of California–Riverside.