Presented on: Wednesday, June 28th at 7:00 PM CDT
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Please join us for a chat with Tananarive Due about her newest work, "The Wishing Pool and Other Stories." This second collection of stories by Due is full of her signature offerings of horror, science fiction,and suspense while confronting monsters of all kinds, including racism, the monster within, and the supernatural. Due’s prolific body of work cements the author as a leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years. She is an award-winning writer, educator and producer. Her body of work includes "The Blood Colony," "The Living Blood," "The Good House," "Joplin’s Ghost," "Devil’s Wake" and the forthcoming "The Reformatory." In addition, she is a contributing author to "Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda" and "Black Panther: Sins of the King." Collaborating with her partner Steven Barnes, she also co-wrote "A Small Town" for season two of Jordan Peele’s "The Twilight Zone" on Paramount Plus and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film "Horror Noire."
About the Author: Tananarive Due is an American Book Award–winning, Essence-bestselling author of 16 books. She was also a contributor to Jonathan Maberry’s middle-grade anthology, "Don’t Turn Out the Lights." She has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award and a British Fantasy Award. She teaches Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit her website TananariveDue.com.
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