Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is an American author of horror and dark fantasy, one of the most celebrated figures in Black horror fiction. She won both the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel for The Reformatory (2023/2024), a historical horror novel set in a 1950s Florida reform school for Black boys. Born in 1966 in Tallahassee, Florida, Due is a daughter of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due. Her fiction draws deeply on the history of Black American experience and the real-world terror of racism. Her African Immortals series and the novel The Good House are among her most celebrated works. She teaches Afrofuturism and African American horror at UCLA. Due is also known for her documentary work on Black horror and her advocacy for diversity in speculative fiction. She lives in the Los Angeles area.