Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Karen Lord

Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Karen Lord

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About Karen

Karen Lord is a Barbadian author, editor and research consultant. Her debut novel, Redemption in Indigo, won several awards and was nominated for the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her other works include the science fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds and The Galaxy Game, and the crime-fantasy novel Unraveling. She edited the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean. 

She was a judge for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2018 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean YA Literature. She has taught at the 2018 Clarion West Writers Workshop and the 2019 Clarion Workshop, and she co-facilitated the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Workshop in Barbados. She has been a featured author at literary festivals from Adelaide to Edinburgh to Berlin, and often appears at the Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad & Tobago.

Get a head start on your summer reading: https://bookshop.org/lists/2023-summer-of-science-fiction-fantasy-reading-series

All events will have a live captioner in Zoom. Contact events@clarionwest.org at least seven days prior to the event to request additional accommodations, such as an ASL interpreter. 

All participants are expected to follow the Clarion West Code of Conduct.

The Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy Reading Series is supported, in part, by the Seattle Public Library, King County 4Culture, and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.