(1952-    ) US writer and critic who began publishing work of genre interest with "Griots of the Galaxy" in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (anth 2004) edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan; in her first novel, Mindscape (2006), the internecine squabbles of Earth are intensified when an Alien Barrier divides the planet into warzones (> Godgame). She has also been active in sf {THEATRE}, writing and directing a number of genre plays. A contributor to various critical anthologies and journals, she received the IAFA Award for distinguished scholarship in 2011. Redwood and Wildfire (2011), a fantasy, won the James Tiptree Jr Award. [JC/DRL]

Andrea D Hairston

born July 1952

died

works

• Mindscape (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2006) [pb/Pam Sanders]
• Redwood and Wildfire (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2011) [pb/]

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