NK JEMISIN, AWARD-WINNING SFF AUTHOR, PSYCHOLOGIST, BLOGGER (MF Galaxy 025)
Celebrated novelist NK Jemisin is the author of The Inheritance Trilogy , The Broken Earth Trilogy , and The Dreamblood Duology. Her writing has won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and three Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards . Jemisin’s work has also received nominations for the Crawford, Gemmell Morningstar , and J ames Tipree, Jr. Awards , two nominations for the World Fantasy Award , three nominations for the Hugo Award , and four nominations for the Nebula Award . Along with Nalo Hopkinson and Nnedi Okorafor , NK Jemisin is one of the N3 , a nucleus of highly influential contemporary writers of science fiction and fantasy. Jemisin is also well-known as a blogger on politics, feminism, and racism; in what writers would call a “day job” and what others would call a full-time career, she’s a counselling psychologist. In today’s episode, Jemisin speaks on her craft, specifically: World Building, including what to leave in, and what to leave o...