Writing Women: 10 Authors With Must-Follow Twitter Accounts
Quick question: What's a gender nuetral way of *clearly* and precisely saying "manned space craft"? As in, one word to replace "manned"?
— Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️ (@Nnedi) January 27, 2017
Nnedi Okorafor
Dr. Nnedi Okorafor is a very prolific writer who recieved her PhD from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Okorafor writes for both America and Nigerian audiences. She was born in Ohio, and her parents are from Nigeria. She’s been back to visit man times, and it’s an inspiration for her writing.
Her published novels include Zahrah the Windseeker, The Shadow Speaker, Long Juju Man, Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine, Akata Witch (published as What Sunny Saw in the Flames in Nigeria and the UK), Who Fears Death, Kabu Kabu, Lagoon, The Book of Phoenix, and Binti. Not only that, but Akata Witch 2: Akata Warrior and Binti 2: Home, and The Man are all due to be published in 2017.
She’s won a ton of awards Hurston-Wright literary award, the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Golden Duck Award, the Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa, the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. In 2016 she got a Nebula and a Hugo for Binti. She’s won some of these more than once!
Because of all this, she is a busy lady who is in high demand, traveling all over the globe to speak and do interviews.
On Twitter, she asks the kinds of questions that modern writers need answered, like the above.
This started up quite a robust and interesting discussion, which is not at all unusual for Nnedi Okorafor. Her tweets are usually thought provoking. She’s definitely a tyger, tyger burning bright, and her light just keeps growing.