Sofia Samatar, a 1994 graduate of Goshen College, is the author of the novel A Stranger in Olondria, winner of the William L. Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. She is also a Hugo and Nebula Award finalist and the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She co-edits the journal Interfictions and teaches at California State University Channel Islands, where her interests include African and Arabic literature, Afrofuturism, and speculative fiction. Her new novel The Winged Histories is forthcoming in 2016. She can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and at www.sofiasamatar.com.
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