6/5/2023 0 Comments Akata witch book 4![]() Though she’d always wanted to move to the desert and pursue a warmer climate, it wasn’t until her daughter, Anyaugo, applied to Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration that her dreams became a reality. “I just gradually fell in love with, specifically, Phoenix and (the) Phoenix area,” Okorafor told The Arizona Republic. The inspiration she found there came in many forms, from the “ amazing grasshoppers” she saw to the feeling of sitting out in the sun as temperatures turned chilly back home in Illinois. ![]() Okorafor, who grew up in Illinois, visited Arcosanti in the Verde Valley for a writers’ retreat in 2016. ![]() View Gallery: Sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor finds inspiration in Arizona: PhotosĪfter making her mark on the science fiction genre with her essays, short stories, comics, memoirs and novels for nearly three decades, writer Nnedi Okorafor has found new fuel for her out-of-this-world imagination since moving to Arizona from the Midwest. ![]()
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