Tananarive Due

Author Guest of Honor: Tananarive Due

TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder’s groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote “A Small Town” for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s “The Twilight Zone” on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also co-wrote their upcoming Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, “Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!”

A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason. 

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Website: https://www.tananarivedue.com/

MileHiCon 52 Regress Report Available

The MileHiCon 52 Regress Report–not a program book but serving some of the same functions–will be/is available for download from the con website, free of charge. This publication, as all my work on behalf of MileHiCon over the years has been, was a labor of love and certainly not done for the (non-existent) money. However, if you enjoy reading/having it, please consider making a small donation to MileHiCon via the Donate button on the home page of the website—or at the con. This year will be a tricky one financially and I for one will do whatever I can to make sure the con continues on. Hope you will too! – Rose Beetem

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