Tonya Liburd

Tonya Liburd’s reprint in Apex Magazine was longlisted for the 2015 Carter V. Cooper (Vanderbilt)/Exile Short Fiction Competition. She has long wished for it to find a home. She shares a birthday with Ray Bradbury and Simeon Daniel, which may tell you a little something about her. Tonya Liburd also is an Apex Magazine Reader’s Choice 2022 Fiction Winner, and is a 2017 and 2018 Rhysling Award nominee. Her fiction is used in Nisi Shawl's Writing the Other course and Tananarive Due’s Black Horror course at UCLA (which has featured Jordan Peele as guest lecturer), as an example of "code switching”. She is also the recipient of a 2020 Ontario Arts Council writer’s grant, a 2021 Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, and a 2023 Recommender’s Grant for writing. She is an Editor over at The Expanse Magazine. You can find her blogging at  https://www.Tonya.ca, on Twitter at @somesillywowzer, or at Patreon at  www.Patreon.com/TonyaLiburd