Mojo Conjure Stories [Paperback]

When enslaved people were brought from the western part of Africa to the Americas, they were forbidden to speak their native languages or practice their religions in the New World.Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica and has lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. The daughter of a poet/playwright and a library technician, she has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada's Sunburst Award for literature of the fantastic. Her award-winning short fiction collectionSkin Folkwas selected for the 2002New York TimesSummer Reading List and was one of theNew York TimesBest Books of the Year. Hopkinson is also the author ofThe New Moon's Arms,The Salt Roads,Midnight Robber, andBrown Girl in the Ring. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and splits her time between California, USA, and Toronto, Canada.