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Award-winning and internationally known science fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson will deliver a public reading from her new novel 鈥淭he New Moon鈥檚 Arms鈥� at 7 p.m. April 13 in the Pond Student Union Building Salmon River Room.

The event is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow. The public is invited.

Hopkinson is a leading member of a new generation of writers who combine interest in speculative fiction with literary distinction and acute cultural awareness. Hopkinson grew up in Jamaica and Trinidad, lives in Canada, is the daughter of well-known Guyanese poet Slade Hopkinson. She has edited two anthologies of stories based in Caribbean and African-American magical traditions and another of post-colonial science fiction, 鈥淪o Long Been Dreaming鈥� (Arsenal Pulp Publishers, 2004) and 鈥淲hispers from the Cotton Tree Root鈥� (Invisible Cities Publisher, 2000).

In addition to her new novel she has published four other novels: 鈥淭he Salt Road鈥� (Warner Books, 2003), 鈥淪kin Folk鈥� (Aspect, 2001), 鈥淢idnight Robber鈥�(Arsenal, 2000), and 鈥淏rown Girl in the Ring鈥� (Aspect, 1998). She has published a book of short stories,鈥滿ojo: Conjure Stories鈥� (Aspect, 2003). She has received the John W. Campbell Award, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the World Fantasy Award, and the Ontario Arts Foundation Award.

For more information on this public reading, contact Leif Sorensen at soreleif@isu.edu, or Brian Norman, normbria@isu.edu.

For more information on Nalo visit her Web site www.sff.net/people/nalo/.

At noon Saturday, April 14, in the PSUB Salmon River Room Hopkinson will deliver the lecture 鈥淢aybe They're Phasing Us In: re-mapping fantasy tropes in the face of gender, race, and sexuality.鈥� This is the lunchtime keynote address for the ISU English Graduate Student Association Conference. The lunch will be served to register conference participants; however, her keynote address starting at about 12:30 p.m. is open to ISU students and the public. For more information on this lecture and conference, contact Michael Stubbs, stubmich@isu.edu.

Nalo鈥檚 visit is sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Council, ASISU, English Graduate Student Association, Janet C. Anderson Gender Resource Center, Women鈥檚 Studies, Department of English & Philosophy, American Studies.