Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

About Oghenechovwe Donald EkpekiSheree Renée ThomasZelda Knight

Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer poet and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore natural science and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. She is a co-editor of Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Tordotcom) and Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue (Third Man Books). Her fiction collection Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future was a finalist for the 2021 Ignyte Locus and World Fantasy Awards. She is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction associate editor of Obsidian and also edited the two-time World Fantasy Award-winning groundbreaking anthologies Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Grand Central). She lives in Memphis Tennessee near a river and a pyramid. Visit www.shereereneethomas.com Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer and editor from Nigeria. He won the Nommo Award for best short story by an African in 2019 the 2020 Otherwise Award and the HWA diversity grant. He has been a finalist for the Nebula Locus BSFA BFA Sturgeon This Is Horror and Nommo awards. He co-edited the Dominion anthology is guest editor at Interstellar Flight Press and is the editor of the first ever Year's Best African Speculative Fiction anthology. His written works have appeared and are forthcoming in Tor.com NBC Strange Horizons Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores Galaxy's Edge and more. Zelda Knight is a USA Today bestselling author British Fantasy Award-winning editor and diverse bookseller. She writes speculative romance for all orientations. She's also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Aurelia Leo an independent Nebula Award-nominated press based in Louisville Kentucky. Zelda co-edited Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora which has received critical acclaim and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction. Keep in touch on Facebook Twitter Instagram TikTok and Goodreads @AuthorZKnight. Or visit her website: http://www.authorzknight.com/