N.K. Jemisin was born in 1972 in Iowa City, Iowa. Though raised in Mobile, Alabama, she frequently visited New York City as she was growing up. She graduated from Tulane University with a B.S. in psychology and from the University of Maryland with a Master’s in Education. She has published nine solo novels: the Inheritance Trilogy, comprised of
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010),
The Broken Kingdoms (2010), and
The Kingdom of Gods (2011); the Dreamblood Duology, comprised of
The Killing Moon (2012) and
The Shadowed Sun (2012); the Broken Earth Trilogy, comprised of
The Fifth Season (2015),
The Obelisk Gate (2016), and
The Stone Sky (2017); and
The City We Became (2020), whose sequel
The World We Make will be published in 2022. In addition, she has co-authored a Mass Effect video game franchise tie-in novel with video-game writer Mac Walters,
Mass Effect: Andromeda Initiation (2017), and published a book of short stories,
How Long ‘til Black Future Month? (2018). A popularly and critically acclaimed science-fiction writer, N. K. Jemisin has won Locus, Nebula, and Hugo Awards for her work. Most notably, every installment of her Broken Earth Trilogy won a Hugo Award for Best Novel. Currently she lives in New York City.
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