Kiini Ibura Salaam
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Kiini Ibura Salaam (born 1973) is an essayist, science fiction and fantasy short story writer, and painter. Her short story collection '' Ancient, Ancient'' won the
James Tiptree, Jr. Award The Otherwise Award, formerly known as the James Tiptree Jr. Award, is an American annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February 1991 by science f ...
for 2012. She is the daughter of writer and activist Kalamu ya Salaam.


Works


Short story collections

* ''Ancient, Ancient'' ( Aqueduct Press, 2012) * ''When the World Wounds'' (
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, 2016)


Anthologies and essays

* '' Dark Matter'' * '' Dark Matter II: Reading the Bones'' * '' Mojo: Conjure Stories'' * ''Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism'' * ''Best Black Women's Erotica 2


Awards

* 2012
James Tiptree, Jr. Award The Otherwise Award, formerly known as the James Tiptree Jr. Award, is an American annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February 1991 by science f ...
for ''Ancient, Ancient''


See also

* Afrofuturism *
Black science fiction Black science fiction or black speculative fiction is an umbrella term that covers a variety of activities within the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres where people of the African diaspora take part or are depicted. Some of its defining ...


References


External links


Official website and blog
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