In 20, Jemisin's short story ' Non-Zero Probabilities' was a finalist for the Nebula and Hugo Best Short Story Awards.

She 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. Career Ī graduate of the 2002 Viable Paradise writing workshop, Jemisin has published short stories and novels. She worked as a counseling psychologist and career counselor before writing full-time. She lived in Massachusetts for ten years and then moved to New York City. She went on to study counseling and earn her Master of Education from the University of Maryland. Jemisin attended Tulane University from 1990 to 1994, where she received a B.S. She grew up in New York City and Mobile, Alabama. Jemisin was born in Iowa City, Iowa, while her parents Noah Jemisin and Janice (Finklea) Jemisin were completing masters programs at the University of Iowa. Jemisin was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant in 2020. She won a fourth Hugo Award, for Best Novelette, in 2020 for Emergency Skin. The three books of her Broken Earth series made her the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, as well as the first to win for all three novels in a trilogy. She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award. Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. Nora Keita Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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