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This study investigates how N. K. Jemisin's speculative fiction reimagines materiality through a new materialist lens. Building on Donna Haraway's concept of “materialized refiguration” and Karen Barad's theory of relational agency, the analysis explores how Jemisin's stories position material and nonhuman agencies as active participants in worldmaking rather than as passive objects. Focusing on “L’Alchimista,” “Cloud Dragon Skies,” and “The Trojan Girl,” this study demonstrates that Jemisin foregrounds material vitality and emergent power across organic, ecological, and digital realms. Unpredictable ingredients, transformative atmospheres, and self-organizing code ecologies reveal material processes that exceed human control and resist linear causation. These narratives highlight the material relationality and performative nature of matter and its capacity to generate new forms, affects, and modes of becoming. Ultimately, Jemisin's work challenges anthropocentric assumptions and offers a posthuman model of imagining grounded in the vibrancy, agency, and interconnectedness of material worlds. By rendering matter as dynamic, affective, and co-creative, her fiction expands the aesthetic and philosophical possibilities of speculative fiction within contemporary new materialist thought.