Meet N.K. Jemisin

N. K. JEMISIN is the author of several novels, including The Fifth Season, which won the Locus and Hugo awards (making her the first black author to win either award for best novel). Her short fiction and novels have also been multiply nominated for the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award, and short-listed for the Crawford and the Tiptree. She writes the bimonthly "Otherworldly" column at the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.