MONDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Hybridity & Cultural Specificity: Discussion with Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In-Person Event  |  2 - 3:30pm PST  |  Register
Dodson Room (#302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre  |  1961 East Mall

Silvia Moreno-Garcia will speak about incorporating hybridity and cultural specificity into speculative fiction, followed by a discussion with Professor Nalo Hopkinson and a Q&A with the audience.

About Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. Cachanilla and Canuck, originally from Baja California, she now resides in Vancouver. She has an MA in Science and Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including Gods of Jade and Shadow (Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Ignyte Award), Mexican Gothic (Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, Pacific Northwest Book Award, Aurora Award, Goodreads Award), and Velvet Was the Night (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Macavity Award). She writes in a variety of genres including fantasy, horror, noir and historical.

She has edited several anthologies, including She Walks in Shadows (World Fantasy Award winner, published in the USA as Cthulhu’s Daughters). Her fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best American Mystery and Suspense.

About Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica, and spent the first 16 years of her life in Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and the US before her family moved to Canada. She writes science fiction and fantasy, exploring their potential for centering non-normative voices and experiences. Hopkinson has received multiple awards for her six novels and numerous short stories. Her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest in 1998. Most recently, Hopkinson received the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master lifetime honour from Science Fiction Writers of America. She was the youngest person to receive the award, and first woman of African descent.

Hopkinson joined the UBC School of Creative Writing as a professor in fall 2021. She teaches courses in speculative fiction, and is working to establish a centre for the Black Speculative Imagination.

Books by both authors will be for sale at the event and the authors will be available for signing. Registration is open to everyone.