Nora Keita Jemisin[1] (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

[2][3] Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim.

[9][2] A graduate of the 2002 Viable Paradise writing workshop,[10][11] Jemisin has published short stories and novels.

[13] Jemisin's debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the first volume in her Inheritance Trilogy, was published in 2010.

During her delivery of the Guest of Honour speech at the 2013 Continuum in Australia, Jemisin pointed out that 10% of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) membership voted for alt-right writer Theodore Beale, known as Vox Day, in his bid for the SFWA presidential position, stating that silence about Beale's views was the same as enabling them.

[18] Canadian writer Amal El-Mohtar characterized Beale's response to Jemisin as "an appallingly racist screed".

[20] Jemisin was a co-Guest of Honor of the 2014 WisCon science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin.

[24] In May 2016, Jemisin mounted a Patreon campaign which raised sufficient funding to allow her to quit her job as a counseling psychologist and focus full-time on her writing.

Far Sector, a twelve-issue limited series comic written by Jemisin with art by Jamal Campbell, began publication in 2019.

[36][37] In 2022, Kirkus Reviews named The World We Make one of the best science fiction and fantasy books of the year.