Sheree Renée Thomas

Sheree Renée Thomas is a New York Times bestselling, two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author and editor. A 2022 Hugo Award Finalist, she is the author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, a Locus, Igynte, and World Fantasy Finalist. She is also the author of the hybrid collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, honored with a Publishers’ Weekly Starred Review and Shotgun Lullabies. In 2022 her novel, Marvel’s Black Panther: Panther’s Rage was published, and Thomas collaborated with Janelle Monáe on “Timebox Altar(ed)” in the artist’s fiction collection debut, The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer. Thomas edited the groundbreaking Dark Matter anthologies, chronicling a century of Black speculative fiction that introduced the science fiction of W.E.B. Du Bois. She recently reviewed Octavia E. Butler’s novel, Kindred for Scientific American and co-curated Carnegie Hall's historic, citywide Afrofuturism Festival. In 2022 Thomas also edited three anthologies: Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction featuring 32 original stories from Africa and her diaspora, as well as Sorghum & Spear: The Way of Silk and Stone. Thomas is the Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949 and is the Associate Editor of Obsidian, founded in 1975 during the Black Arts Movement. A former New Yorker, she lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid.