- Writer
- American
- Black
N.K. Jemisin is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novelist and comic book writer. She wrote the DC Comics series Far Sector, featuring Green Lantern Jo Mullein, which won both an Eisner Award and a Hugo Award. In her prose work, she became the first author to win three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel for her Broken Earth trilogy, and the first African-American writer to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel. In 2020 she received the MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant.
Far Sector (DC Comics, 2019–2021)
The Broken Earth Trilogy – The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The City We Became
First African-American writer to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel (2016)
First author to win three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel (2016–2018)
First author to win for all three novels in a trilogy
Far Sector
2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel (The Fifth Season)
2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel (The Obelisk Gate)
2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel (The Stone Sky)
2020 MacArthur Fellows Genius Grant
2022 Hugo Award (Far Sector)
Locus Award
Nebula Award
New York Times
The Guardian
TIME magazine (Time 100, 2021)