N(ora). K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to writing, she is a counseling psychologist (currently specializing in career counseling), a sometime hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger.
Her short fiction has been published in pro markets such as Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; podcast markets and print anthologies; and has received Honorable Mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and The Year’s Best Science Fiction.
Her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, is forthcoming from Orbit Books in February 2010. It is the first book of the Inheritance Trilogy. Her novels are represented by Lucienne Diver of the Knight Agency.
She is the recipient of a Gulliver Travel Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and a graduate of the Viable Paradise writing workshop.
She is currently a member of the Altered Fluid writing group.
