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Kiini Ibura Salaam
Born 1973
New Orleans, Louisiana
Nationality American
Genre Science fiction, fantasy

Kiini Ibura Salaam (born 1973) is an essayist, science fiction and fantasy short story writer, and painter. Her short story collection Ancient, Ancient won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for 2012.

She is the daughter of writer and activist Kalamu ya Salaam.

Works

Short story collections

  • Ancient, Ancient (Aqueduct Press, 2012)
  • When the World Wounds (Third Man Books, 2016)

Anthologies and essays

  • Dark Matter
  • Dark Matter II: Reading the Bones
  • Mojo: Conjure Stories
  • Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

Awards

  • 2012 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for Ancient, Ancient

See also

  • Afrofuturism
  • Black science fiction
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