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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

I’m a 56-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I’m comfortably asocial — a hermit living in a large city — a pessimist if I’m not careful; a student, endlessly curious; a feminist; an African American; a former Baptist; and an oil and water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

Octavia Butler, author of Kindred, The Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, and many other works. She earned both Hugo and Nebula awards, was the first science-fiction writer to be awarded the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, and this year was honored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America with the 2012 Solstice Award. A scholarship in her name was established in 2007 to provide opportunities for writers of color.

Today would have been Octavia Butler’s sixty-fifth birthday.

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