title: N. K. Jemisin
text: Nora K. Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American speculative fiction writer.  She has won several awards for her work. She is the only author to have won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years.
  
  In 2016, Jemisin's novel The Fifth Season won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. This win made her the first African American writer to win a Hugo award in that category. Its first sequel, The Obelisk Gate, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2017. A second sequel, The Stone Sky, won the same award in 2018.
  
  Early life 
  Nora K. Jemisin was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and grew up in New York City and Mobile, Alabama. Jemisin has a B.S. degree in psychology (1994) Tulane University. She  also has a Master's of Education from the University of Maryland College Park.
  
  Personal life 
  Jemisin lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
  
  Awards 
   Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, Best Fantasy Novel 2010 (The Broken Kingdoms)
   Locus Award, Best First Novel 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
   Sense of Gender Award, 2011 (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
   Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, Best Fantasy Novel 2012 (The Shadowed Sun)
   Hugo Award, Best Novel 2016 (The Fifth Season)
   Hugo Award, Best Novel 2017 (The Obelisk Gate)
   Nebula Award, Best Novel 2018 (The Stone Sky)
   Locus Award, Best Fantasy 2018 (The Stone Sky)
   Hugo Award, Best Novel 2018 (The Stone Sky)
  
  References 
  
  1972 births
  American science fiction writers
  Hugo Award winning writers
  Living people