![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first novel, Ink ( 2012), which is set in the very Near Future, dramatizes the global refugee crisis increasingly central to the early twenty-first century world as immigrants to America are forcibly tattooed with biometric tags, effectively creating an apartheid society (see Imperialism Race in SF) the narrative itself complexly mixes (see Equipoise) elements from fantasy, Magic Realism and sf. Her stories have appeared at Uncanny magazine, Tor. Weaving the fantastical with the everyday, Vourvoulias tells a story as unsettling as it is timely. (1960- ) Thai-born author, an American citizen from birth brought up in Guatemala and in USA from the age of fifteen she began to publish work of genre interest with "Flying with the Dead" in Crossed Genres: Year Two (anth 2010) edited by Kay T Holt, Kelly Jennings and Bart R Leib. Sabrina Vourvoulias is the author of Ink (Crossed Genres, 2012), a novel that draws on her memories of Guatemala’s armed internal conflict, and of the Latinx experience in the United States. Tight-paced and surreal, INK paints a dystopian vision in which the American dream morphs into an immigration nightmare. ![]()
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