Visiting Writers Lecture Series

Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, both from Small Beer Press. Her stories and essays have appeared in Lightspeed, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere, and her work has received the John W. Campbell Award, the William L. Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. She teaches in the English Department at James Madison University, where her interests include African and Arabic literature, Afrofuturism, and speculative fiction.