Nika Patrice Joillhie-Mighty writes about galactic hopscotch, robots, and moonshine. But you can tell people she writes fantasy, speculative, and heightened-reality fiction because that’s a little bit easier to explain. And maybe you don’t have time, to have, like, one of those, *whole conversations,* right now. Born in the Caribbean, and raised in different areas of the United States, in the American South, on the East Coast, and on the West Coast, she grew up experiencing life and stories