Barbadian writer KAREN LORD is the author of Redemption in Indigo: A Novel, which won the William L. Crawford Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for adult literature and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for best novel. Her other works include the science fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Novel and The Galaxy Game: A Novel, and the crime fantasy novel Unraveling. Lord also edited the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean.