![]() ![]() ![]() She serves as the Associate Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora (Illinois State University, Normal). ![]() In an essay she wrote for Grcourt Gate, Thomas reflects on her experiences teaching at Smith. Her work is widely anthologized and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received honorable mention in the Year's Best volumes. A Cave Canem Fellow, her poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times and other publications. Thomas is the author of Shotgun Lullabies: Stories and Poems and editor of the groundbreaking anthology Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and its sequel, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Du Bois’s work as science fiction, and she was the first black author to be honored with the World Fantasy Award since its inception in 1975. Two multigenre/hybrid fiction and poetry collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and Shotgun Lullabies were published by Aqueduct Press. She edited the Dark Matter volumes (World Fantasy Award 2001, 2005) that first introduced W.E.B. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, May 26, 2020) is her first fiction collection. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Di- aspora (2000) and its sequel, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2004), were the first collections to unite the work of one hundred years of Black science fiction and fantasy by Black writers. Sheree Renée Thomas creates art inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and the genius culture of the Mississippi Delta. ![]()
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