15 Facts About NK Jemisin

NK Jemisin's has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award.

NK Jemisin's won a fourth Hugo Award, for Best Novelette, in 2020 for Emergency Skin.

NK Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2020.

NK Jemisin was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and grew up in New York City and Mobile, Alabama.

NK Jemisin's went on to study counseling and earn her Master of Education from the University of Maryland.

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NK Jemisin's lived in Massachusetts for ten years and then moved to New York City.

NK Jemisin's worked as a counseling psychologist and career counselor before writing full-time.

NK Jemisin's was a member of the Boston-area writing group BRAWLers, and as of 2010 was a member of Altered Fluid, a speculative fiction critique group.

In 2009 and 2010, NK Jemisin's short story "Non-Zero Probabilities" was a finalist for the Nebula and Hugo Best Short Story Awards.

NK Jemisin was a co-Guest of Honor of the 2014 WisCon science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin.

In January 2016, NK Jemisin started writing "Otherworldly", a bimonthly column for The New York Times.

In May 2016, NK Jemisin mounted a Patreon campaign which raised sufficient funding to allow her to quit her job as a counseling psychologist and focus full-time on her writing.

In October 2020, NK Jemisin was announced as a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant.

NK Jemisin's is first cousin once removed to stand-up comic and television host W Kamau Bell.

NK Jemisin is the first author to win three successive Hugo Awards for Best Novel, as well as the first to win for all novels in a trilogy.