Parable of the Sower Trivia

Octavia Butler was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, popularly called the genius grant. She was the first writer from San Francisco ever to receive it. Not too shabby, Ms. Butler. (Source)

There's an Octavia Butler scholarship available to help sci-fi writers attend either of the two Clarion writers workshops. Social justice in action. (Source)

Octavia Butler was always different for many reasons—one of them is that she is six feet tall. (Source)