Nnedi Okorafor is an American-born writer of fantasy and speculative fiction. Her novels and stories reflect both her West African heritage and her American life. She is the author of The Shadow Speaker (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun) and Zahrah the Windseeker (Houghton Mifflin). Zahrah is the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. It was also shortlisted for the 2005 Carl Brandon Parallax and Kindred Awards and a finalist for the Garden State Teen Book Award and the Golden Duck Award. The Shadow Speaker was a Booksense Pick for Winter 2007/2008, a Tiptree Honor Book, a finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award, the Andre Norton Award and the Golden Duck Award and an NAACP Image Award nominee. Okorafor's children's book, Long Juju Man, is the 2007/08 winner of the Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa[1]. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines, including Dark Matter II, Strange Horizons, Moondance magazine and Writers of the...
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