On May 2, Jemisin spoke with Neil Gaiman in a live-streamed conversation sponsored by Bard College and Oblong Books. Part ode, part treatise on gentrification and white-washing, her latest book is a sweeping, masterful, and honest portrait of a city in the midst of a battle for its soul. In The City We Became, Jemisin trains her deft pen on a real-life subject of mythic proportions: New York City. Introducing timely themes of social justice, cultural conflict, environmentalism, and sexuality to her books, coupled with a psychologist's capacity for character development, Jemisin has expanded the appeal of fantasy writing and demonstrated the power of an oft-dismissed genre to a new generation of readers. In a decade, she's written nine novels, which have earned her over a dozen book awards. By the time she crowdfunded enough money to quit her day job and begin writing full-time, she already had a column in the New York Times and a growing fan following.
Jemisin, a trained counseling psychologist, came onto the literary scene in the early 2000s, when she began publishing science fiction and short stories.
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