Nora, smallN. K. (Nora) Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been multiply nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula, and the World Fantasy Award; shortlisted for the Crawford, the Gemmell Morningstar, and the Tiptree; and she has won a Locus Award for Best First Novel as well as several Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards.  In 2016, she became the first black person to win the Best Novel Hugo for The Fifth Season.

Stories originally in Helix (removed; both are available in her short story collection, How Long Til Black Future Month):

“The Brides of Heaven” (July 2007)

“The Narcomancer” (January 2007)