Karen Lord

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About The Author

Karen Lord is a Barbadian author and editor who has worked as a physics teacher, diplomat, part-time soldier, and academic. Her novel Redemption in Indigo won the Frank Collymore Literary Award, the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, the William L. Crawford Award, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and the Kitschies Golden Tentacle, and was longlisted for the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She is also the author of UnravelingThe Best of All Possible Worlds, a finalist for the 2014 Locus Awards; The Galaxy GameThe Blue, Beautiful World, longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction; and is editor of the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean.

Books by Karen Lord

We Will Rise Again

Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope

Edited by Malka Older
Winner of the Locus Award for Anthology

From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transformative visions of the future, fantastical alternate worlds, and inspiration for the soci...
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