I wrote Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems ( Aqueduct Press) described by Arthur Flowers as “a wondrous book, like Jean Toomer’s Cane” and edited Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (20 World Fantasy Awards, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year among other honors).Īs you can probably guess, I love to read and I love to write. We discussed how to prevent being an editor interfere with being a writer (and vice versa), the way a serendipitous encounter with Octavia Butler’s Kindred caused her to take her own writing more seriously and a copy of Black Enterprise magazine spurred her to move to New York, how her family’s relationship with Isaac Hayes nourished her creative dreams, the advice she gives young writers about the difference between the fantasy and reality of a writer’s life, how realizing the books she thought were out there weren’t launched her editing career, the rewards and challenges of taking over as editor for a 75-year old magazine, why she reads cover letters last, and much more.A native of Memphis, I write between a river and a pyramid.
Thomas wrote Marvel’s Black Panther: Panther’s Rage novel (October 2022), adapted from the legendary comics, collaborated with Janelle Monáe on The Memory Librarian, and is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949 and Obsidian, founded in 1975. In 2022 she co-curated Carnegie Hall’s historic, citywide Afrofuturism Festival. She edited the groundbreaking Dark Matter anthologies that introduced a century of Black speculative fiction, including W.E.B.
New York Times bestselling, two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author and editor Sheree Renée Thomas has been a 2022 Hugo Award Finalist, and her collection, Nine Bar Blues, is a Locus, Igynte, and World Fantasy Finalist.
Here’s how the event organizers described Thomas and her career. So early the same day as her presentation titled “Afrofuturism & Diversity in Sci-Fi,” I scooped her up from her hotel and took her over to Commonwealth Indian Restaurant, where I’ve had many wonderful meals. When I checked the details and saw the venue was only a 90-minute drive away, I reached out to see whether she’d have time in her schedule to grab lunch - and luckily she did. Over on Facebook, someone in the group devoted to Capclave - a con where I’ve harvested many conversations for you - mentioned Thomas was scheduled to speak at Maryland’s Rockville Memorial Library. My conversation with this episode’s guest, Sheree Renée Thomas, didn’t take place because we were attending the same convention, which is the way most of these chats happen, but out of pure serendipity. Eating the Fantastic, Sheree Renée Thomas
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