You can watch her Hugo acceptance speech here, and read a transcript here! The Stone Sky also won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2018 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. (Nora) Jemisin made history back in August for winning the third consecutive Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Stone Sky, the last in her Broken Earth trilogy the previous two books The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate also won Hugos. Don’t forget, Zoraida is also teaching at the Sirens Studio and will appear at Sirens this October 23–28, 2018! Check out the full list on Zoraida’s Twitter here. Upcoming Appearances: Zoraida is making a number of appearances across the country from now until the end of October, including Los Angeles, New Jersey, New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia.

Where She Is Now: Hard at work on her next novel! Zoraida can also be found on Twitter and Facebook. In 2019, look out for the first of Zoraida’s new YA fantasy duology Hollow Crown, which is “loosely based on the Spain of the 15th century, reimagining the Inquisition as a battle between a cruel, autocratic state and rebel magicians.” The sequel will be published in 2020. Zoraida’s short fiction has appeared in two recent anthologies: “You Owe Me a Ride” in the 2017 Star Wars collection From a Certain Point of View (alongside other past Sirens Guests of Honor Renée Ahdieh, Rae Carson, and Nnedi Okorafor) and “Divine Are the Stars” in Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft, which was edited by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood and was released in late August 2018. The next book in the series, featuring Alex’s youngest sister Rose, will come out in 2019. To celebrate her new book, Zoraida spoke at bookstores across the country with author Dhonielle Clayton and additional guests on the Belles and Brujas Tour throughout the month of June. Since Labyrinth Lost was released, Zoraida has published the second book in the Brooklyn Brujas series- Bruja Born in June 2018-which features Alex’s beautiful older sister, Lula.

In 2017, our theme was women who work magic, and our Guests of Honor were Zoraida Córdova, N. If you attended Sirens that year, please share with us your memories of 2017-last year!-in the comments or on social media, and take a stroll with us down memory lane! In this series, we check in with our past Guests of Honor to see what they’ve been up to these days. With our conference theme of reunion, it’s the perfect chance to reflect on past conferences and revisit some old friends.

This fall will mark our tenth year of Sirens.

Rebel by Rachel Manija Brown