Karen Lord

Karen Lord (born 22 May 1968) is a Barbadian writer and editor and the author of Redemption in Indigo, winner of the 2011 William L. Crawford Award and the 2012 Kitschies Golden Tentacle for Best Debut, and a nominee for the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

Her other works include Unraveling, the second novel in the Redemption series, and The Best of All Possible Worlds, The Galaxy Game, and The Blue, Beautiful World, which was longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, in the Cygnus Beta series.

Lord also edited New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean and coedited We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope with Annalee Newitz and Malka Older.