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Kiini Ibura Salaam

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New Orleans, The United States

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http://www.kiiniibura.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories, Women & Gender Studies

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September 2007

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Kiini Ibura Salaam is a writer and painter from New Orleans, LA. Her work is rooted in eroticism, speculative events and worlds, and women's perspectives. Her fiction has been published in a number of anthologies, including Dark Matter, Mojo: Conjure Stories, and Dark Eros. Her essays have been published in Essence, Ms., andColonize This. She is the author of the KIS.list, an e-column that explores the writing life. Her first collection of short stories, Ancient, Ancient, is forthcoming from Aqueduct Press in May 2012. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Kiini Ibura Salaam's Blog: Whispers and Roars

Submit to Your Art

“Submit to your Art. Yield to your Art and what it calls for and requires. Your Art should not be something disconnected and separate from you. It shouldn’t pull you around by the nose like some frightened traveler journeying through unknown places. If you’re committed to creating Art for as long as you can possibly imagine, then ask your Art what it needs. But ask by creating and dedicating en... Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 19, 2013 18:36 • Tags: art, artists, commencement, producing-work, wangechi-mutu

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Average rating: 4.10 · 476 ratings · 40 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors

	Ancient, Ancient 4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree R. Thomas (Editor), W.E.B. Du Bois, Kalamu ya Salaam 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Matter: Reading the Bones by Sheree R. Thomas (Editor), Ibi Zoboi (Goodreads Author), Henry Dumas 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mojo: Conjure Stories by Nalo Hopkinson, Luisah Teish (Introduction), Tobias S. Buckell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 84 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Needle's Eye by Linda DeMeulemeester, Susan Ee (Goodreads Author), Raymund Eich (Goodreads Author) 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kiini Ibura Salaam wrote a new blog post Submit to Your Art “Submit to your Art. Yield to your Art and what it calls for and requires. Your Art should not be something disconnected and separate from you. It... Read more of this blog post »
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Kiini Salaam rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi read in March, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dystopic future set in Southeast Asia. Post-destruction of the world as we know it, and destructive forces are continuing on their greedy paths of dominance. The stability present in the beginning of the novel will not last long. An interesting medit...more
Mar 06, 2013 10:02am · see review
Kiini Salaam voted for Running the Rift in Best Fiction in the Opening Round of the 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards. cast your vote
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Kiini Salaam made a comment in the group Books: Passports to the World Challenge — Welcome! topic "Okay, so we're all choosing our own books? We aren't reading the same books?"
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Kiini Salaam rated a book 3 of 5 stars The Broken Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy, #2) by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Sep 02, 2012 10:15am
Kiini Salaam rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Poison Eaters and Other Stories by Holly Black (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Interesting, imaginative, engrossing, other-worldy, engaging.
Sep 02, 2012 10:14am · see review
Kiini Salaam rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy, #1) by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Hundred Thousand Kingdoms immediately reveals a few things about the author: she's smart, she's an amazing writer, she's a wordsmith, she's got a raging, complex, fierce imagination. The book is incredibly layered and she keeps tight command of the w...more
Sep 02, 2012 10:13am · see review
Kiini Salaam rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna read in March, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
You must approach this book with patience and a willingness to be ushered gently into post-war Sierra Leone. Where the beginning is ambiance and character-driven, the characters begin to really move, connect, create friction, and reveal, in the secon...more
Mar 10, 2012 01:23pm · see review
Kiini Salaam rated a book 4 of 5 stars Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jan 15, 2012 07:34pm