Sheree Renée Thomas: The Short Fiction Industry, Hoodoo, and working with Janelle Monáe

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10/23/23 • 61 min

Our esteemed guest, Sheree Renée Thomas, was kind enough to visit us and drop some knowledge. More info on her below!

Sheree is a New York Times bestselling, two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author and editor. A 2023 Octavia E. Butler Award honoree and a 2022 Hugo Award Finalist, she is the author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, a Locus, Ignyte, and World Fantasy Finalist, Marvel’s Black Panther: Panther’s Rage novel, and she collaborated with Janelle Monáe on “Timebox Altar(ed)” in The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer. Sheree co-edited Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction and is an NAACP Image Award Nominee and Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Sheree lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid.

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Our esteemed guest, Sheree Renée Thomas, was kind enough to visit us and drop some knowledge. More info on her below!

Support F&SF:

https://fandsf.com/

Find Sheree ONLINE:

https://www.instagram.com/shereereneethomas/

https://www.shereereneethomas.com/

https://twitter.com/blackpotmojo

Leslye Penelope's podcast 'My Imaginary Friends':

https://lpenelope.com/podcast/

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