Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinsonis a Jamaican speculative fiction writer and editor. She currently lives and teaches in Riverside, California. Her novelsand short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling...
NationalityJamaican
ProfessionWriter
CountryJamaica
demigods elders
When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.