Sheree Renée Thomas is a multi-award-winning writer, poet, editor, and curator. Her work is inspired by myth, folklore, natural science, music, and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. She is the author of four collections of fiction, including Mojorhythm, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, and Shotgun Lullabies. She is also the co-editor of several anthologies, including Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Thomas is the first Black writer honored with the World Fantasy Award and has also received the Ignyte Ember Award and the Octavia E. Butler Award. She was a Hugo Award Finalist twice and was honored with the Locus Award. As a Marvel writer, she wrote the novel, Black Panther: Panther’s Rage, stories in Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, and Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson, and also collaborated with Janelle Monáe’s on the novelette, “Timebox Altar(ed)” in the New York Times bestselling collection, The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer, She has taught creative writing workshops at universities and in community and cultural organizations around the world. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, and Marvel Comics (“The World Is Not Ready” about the Black Panther and Storm in Marvel Voices: Legends #1). She lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Visit www.shereereneethomas.com