7 Black Women Science Fiction Writers Everyone Should Know
Octavia Butler
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Octavia Butler's work has reached a broad, mainstream audience in a way that few Black women science fiction authors have enjoyed. She began writing Sci-Fi at 12 upon realizing that she could create better fantasy stories than those she saw in TV and movies. In 2010, Octavia Butler was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame posthumously.
Must Read: Kindred
Tananarive Due
Must Read: My Soul to Keep
Andrea Hairston
Andrea Hairston has authored and a handful of science fiction plays, and her first novel, Mindscape, was awarded the Carl Brandon Parralax Award and was shortlisted for the Phillip K Dick Award and the Tiptree Award. She also wrote a short story for the anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy. She currently teaches at Smith College.
Must Read: Mindscape
Must Read: Mindscape
Nalo Hopkinson
Born in Jamaica, Nalo Hopkinson has published a number of novels and short stories and edited anthologies. Her novel Sister Mine won the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. She currently teaches at University of California Riverside.
Must Read: Brown Girl in the Ring
N. K. Jemisin
Brooklyn resident N. K. Jeminisin has been shortlisted with a number of awards for her science fiction/fantasy short stories and novels and was awarded the Locus Award for Best First Novel for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.
Must Read: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian-American Nnedia Okorafor's writes African-based science fiction stories. Her novel Who Fears Death won the World Fantasy Award for best novel. In addition to her novels for adults, she's written prize-winning young adult books including Akata Witch, Zahrah the Windseeker, and The Shadow Speaker, and a children's book Long Juju Man. Hopefully, we'll see her work again soon in theaters because Akata Witch's film rights have been optioned. She is currently a professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Buffalo.
Must Read: Who Fears Death
Nisi Shawl
Must Read: Filter House
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