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How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a new vision for humanity

  • Written by Alyssa Collins, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina
How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a new vision for humanityOctavia E. Butler poses in a Seattle bookstore in 2004. The celebrated science fiction author died in 2006.AP Photo/Joshua Trujillo

In 2021, Alyssa Collins was awarded a yearlong Octavia E. Butler Fellowship from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.

Woman poses in black shirt with one arm on hip.Alyssa Collins.University of South Carolina

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