Episode #46: Aunt Dissy's Policy Dream Book

Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling fiction writer, poet, and a Hugo Award-nominated editor. Winner of the 2023 Octavia E. Butler Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2023 Locus Award for Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, and Mississippi Delta conjure. She is author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, the Marvel novel, Black Panther: Panther's Rage, an adaptation of Don McGregor's legendary comics, and two multigenre collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life and Shotgun Lullabies. Thomas edited the two-time World Fantasy Award-winning Dark Matter speculative fiction anthologies that introduced W.E.B. Du Bois’s work as science fiction, and she co-edited the award-nominated volume, Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (1945-2010). She collaborated with Janelle Monáe on "Timebox Altar(ed)" in The Memory Librarian and Other Stories from Dirty Computer. She is the Associate Editor of the historic Black arts journal, Obsidian, and Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949. Thomas is a Marvel writer and contributor to Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid. Visit her at www.shereereneethomas.com or @shereereneethomas.bsky.social , Twitter/X: @blackpotmojo