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Nalo Hopkinson is the award-winning author of several novels and short story collections, including Brown Girl in the Ring, Sister Mine, and Skin Folk. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside.
Nalo Hopkinson on the politics of dystopia, writing from the Global South, and the enduring importance of black mermaids.
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