Our first progress report is live. Read all about sponsorship and collaboration options, our partnership with Alzabo Soup for their 10th anniversary, and Vendors, Author’s Row, and Art Show applications being open now. Also, don’t forget to pre-register by April 30th as prices will be increasing after that.
Eager to create her own worlds, Torie is excited to share her adventures through writing, inviting readers to embark on journeys of their own.
MileHiCon 57 Progress Report #4
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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.
Website: https://www.tananarivedue.com/
MileHiCon Annual Report for 2023 is now available for review.