Īmal El-Mohtar wrote of An Unkindness of Ghosts, 'Reading it, I felt it carving out a vastness inside me, pouring itself into me like so many stars, and the more I read the bigger I felt, falling down a rabbit-hole of sky and wanting only to go deeper and farther with every page.' Gary K. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and Hurston/Wright awards. The book was a best book of 2017 in The Guardian, NPR, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Bustle, and others, as well as a Stonewall Honor Book, Firecracker winner, and a finalist for the Locus, Lambda, Tiptree, John W. It was published in 2017 by Akashic Books. Solomon's debut novel was An Unkindness of Ghosts, a science fiction novel exploring the conjunction between structural racism and generation ships. Their literary influences include Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Ray Bradbury, Jean Toomer, and Doris Lessing. They grew up in California, Indiana, Texas, and New York. Originally from the United States, they received their BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity from Stanford University in California and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. Īs of 2018, Solomon lives in Cambridge, UK, with their family.

They describe themself as 'a dyke, an anarchist, a she-beast, an exile, a shiv, a wreck, and a refugee of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.' They have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and are on the autism spectrum. Solomon is non-binary and intersex and states that they use fae/faer and they/them pronouns. Their third novel, Sorrowland, was published in May 2021. In 2018, they received the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Firecracker Award in Fiction for their debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, and in 2020 their second novel, The Deep, won the Lambda Literary Award. Rivers Solomon is an American author of speculative and literary fiction.

Sorrowland by rivers solomon