NK JEMISIN
Feb 26, 2020
3 minutes
Words by Jonathan Wright
Photography by Laura Hanifin
BIODATA
From Iowa City, Iowa
Greatest Hits Jemisin’s first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), took the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and all three volumes of her Broken Earth series have won Hugo Awards.
Random Fact Jemisin’s father, Noah, fed her SF habit. When she was growing up, in the summer months they’d watch classic Star Trek and The Twilight Zone episodes every weeknight at two in the morning.
CITIES, IT’S OFTEN SAID, HAVE DISTINCT characters, like people. It’s an idea that
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