Due, Tananarive

Awards:

The Reformatory (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press/Titan), Novel, 2023

Nominations:

“Rumpus Room” (The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Akashic Books), Long Fiction, 2023

My Soul to Keep, Novel, 1997

The Between, First Novel, 1995

BIO: Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award-winning author who was an executive producer on Shudder’s Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, co-wrote the horror graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of “The Twilight Zone” for Jordan Peele. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also co-author of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). In 2013, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

Her most recent novel, The Reformatory, is a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and an L.A. Times Book Prize. Her novelette “Rumpus Room,” from The Wishing Pool, is also a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award.