TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA.

A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include The Reformatory (October 31, 2023), The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.

She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!"

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Terence Taylor lives and writes in Gowanus, Brooklyn, with Shuri, his black cat and part-time muse. After years of comforting kids with award-winning children’s television written for PBS, Nickelodeon, and Disney, among others, he turned to scaring their parents in print. His short story "Plaything" appeared in Brandon Massey’s "Dark Dreams", the first horror-suspense anthology of African American authors. Terence’s work was in the next two volumes, and his short stories and nonfiction essays have since appeared in "Lightspeed", "Fantastic Stories of the Imagination", "Nightmare Magazine", "What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre", "The Canterbury Nightmares", "Out There Screaming" and more.

His first novel, "Bite Marks", was a modern-day Grand Guignol about the unintended but catastrophic creation of an undead infant. Graced with a starred review by Publishers Weekly that described it as “a gritty, screenworthy supernatural noir set in 1980s New York,” it was followed by "Blood Pressure". Twenty years later, a new menace endangers the humans and vampires that survived book one. Terence will soon conclude his trilogy with "Past Life", set in 2027, as that rising horror threatens to end the world.

Rebecca Roanhorse is a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning speculative fiction writer. She lives in Northern New Mexico with her family.

Hi, I’m Cadwell Turnbull, award-winning author of the science fiction novel The Lesson and No Gods, No Monsters and We Are the Crisis.

My short fiction can be found in the pages of Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Nightmare to name a few. My Nightmare story “Loneliness is in Your Blood” was selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. My Asimov’s novelette “Other Worlds and This One” was also selected as a notable story for the anthology. My short story “Jump” was selected for the Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019.

My debut novel The Lesson is set in my native U.S. Virgin Islands after an alien colonization. The Lesson was the recipient of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category. No Gods, No Monsters was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and a winner of a Lambda Award.

Jordan Peele is an Oscar and Emmy Award–winning writer, producer, director, and the founder of Monkeypaw Productions. His debut feature, Get Out, was released in 2017 to widespread acclaim, earning four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Original Screenplay for Peele. In 2019, Peele wrote, produced, and directed his second feature, Us, which instantly became a smash hit with audiences and critics alike, posting the largest box-office opening for an original horror movie ever. In the summer of 2022, Peele released his third feature, the sci-fi horror epic Nope, which also opened to number one at the box office. Prior to Get Out, Peele was the co-creator of Comedy Central’s Key & Peele. Across five seasons, the show’s unique take on sketch comedy became a viral sensation online. In 2012, Peele formed his film and television company, Monkeypaw Productions, to champion unconventional storytelling through genre.

L.D. Lewis (she/her) is an editor, publisher, and Shirley Jackson award-nominated writer of speculative fiction. She serves as a founding creator and Project Manager for the World Fantasy and Hugo Award-winning FIYAH Literary Magazine. She also serves as the founding Director of (Hugo-nominated) FIYAHCON, Researcher for the (also award-winning) LeVar Burton Reads podcast, and pays the bills as the Director of Programs and Operations for Lambda Literary. She once chaired a Nebula Conference and Tech Directed a Nebula Award Ceremony (but hasn’t quite won a Nebula), and she runs the Ignyte Awards alongside Suzan Palumbo. She is the author of A Ruin of Shadows (Dancing Star Press, 2018) and her published short fiction and poetry includes numerous appearances in online publications, as well as Scholastic and Neon Hemlock anthologies, and Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming. She lives in Georgia on perpetual deadline, with her partner, two cats, a coffee habit, and an impressive LEGO build collection.