Women Writers Series VIII: Nalo Hopkinson & Jorjet Harper
Guild Complex
Co-sponsored by Windy City Times/Blacklines. Nalo Hopkinson is a J.A. (Jamaican), Trini (Trinidadian), Guyanese cook-up stew of a Caribbean-born woman living in Toronto and writing science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction. In 1997 she won the Warner Aspect First Novel contest.
Co-sponsored by Windy City Times/Blacklines. Nalo Hopkinson is a J.A. (Jamaican), Trini (Trinidadian), Guyanese cook-up stew of a Caribbean-born woman living in Toronto and writing science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction. In 1997 she won the Warner Aspect First Novel contest. Warner published her novel Brown Girl in the Ring in 1998. In 1998 she received the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for emerging writer. Warner published her second novel, Midnight Robber, in 2000. Nalo will be reading excerpts from her most recent novel Skin Folk.
Writer and artist Jorjet Harper is the author of two books of humorous essays and social commentary, Lesbomania and Tales from the Dyke Side. She has been a mainstay in the Chicago gay and lesbian press for almost two decades, and has published over 500 articles in more than 40 periodicals. Harper is currently at work on a memoir about her years as a hippie in Haight-Ashbury. The Guild Complex Women Writers Series is made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.Performers
Nalo Hopkinson & Jorjet Harper