Sheree Renée Thomas, a 2022 Hugo Award Finalist, is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and Mississippi Delta conjure. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, May 2020) is her first all prose collection and was named a Finalist for the World Fantasy, Locus, and Ignyte Awards. She is also the author of two multigenre/hybrid collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press July 2016), longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review and Shotgun Lullabies (Aqueduct January 2011). She collaborated with Janelle Monáe on the story, "Timebox Altar(ed)" in the New York Times bestselling collection, THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN and Other Stories of Dirty Computer (HarperVoyager April 2022). She edited the World Fantasy-winning groundbreaking black speculative fiction anthologies, Dark Matter (2000 and 2004) and is the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois’s science fiction short stories. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage, 2020). She is the Associate Editor of the historic Black arts literary journal, Obsidian: Literature & the Arts in the African Diaspora, founded in 1975 and is the Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949. She also writes book reviews for Asimov's. She was recently honored as a 2020 World Fantasy Award Finalist in the Special Award – Professional category for contributions to the genre and was the Co-Host of the 2021 Hugo Awards Ceremony at Discon III in Washington, DC with Andrea Hairston. Sheree is the Guest of Honor of Wiscon StokerCon,WisCon 45, and Multiverse. She is a Marvel writer and contributor to the groundbreaking anthology, Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda edited by Jesse J. Holland and author of the forthcoming PANTHER'S RAGE novel from Marvel/Titan Books (2022). She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid.