Sheree Thomas

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Sheree Thomas
Sheree Thomas

Sheree Thomas also credited as Sheree R. Thomas and Sheree Renée Thomas is a writer, book editor and publisher whose groundbreaking Dark Matter collected the works of some of the best African American Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy writers working at the time. Authors such as Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, Charles R. Saunders, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, Jewelle Gomez, Ishmael Reed, Kalamu ya Salaam, Robert Fleming, and Nalo Hopkinson. Venerable writers like George S. Schuyler and W.E.B. Dubois also had stories included in the collection. Dark Matter was honored with the 2005 and the 2001 World Fantasy Award and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[1]

Sheree is the publisher of Wanganegresse Press, has contributed to national publications including the Washington Post Book World, Black Issues Book Review, QBR, and Hip Mama. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Ishmael Reed's Konch, Drumvoices Revue, Obsidian III, African Voices, storySouth, and other literary journals and has received Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 16th and 17th annual collections. A native of Memphis, she lives in New York City.[2].

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  • Anansi (1999)
  • Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000), NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year, winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD for Year's Best Anthology, GOLD PEN Award
  • "The Last Moonsong" story in Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art (2001)
  • "For the Distinguished Historian..." poem in Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art (2001)
  • "The Road to Khartoum" poem in Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (2001) edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera.
  • "How Sukie Come Free" story in Mojo: Conjure Stories ( 2003 )
  • "The Grassdreaming Tree" story in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004) edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan
  • Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2004), winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD for Year's Best Anthology
  • "Marrakesh" and "Sky in West Memphis" poems in STORYSOUTH (2005)
  • "In the Negro Section of Nashville" and "On Entering William Edmondson's Sculpture Yard in Nashville" poems in STORYSOUTH (2005)
  • "Graze a Dark Field" poem in ESSENCE Magazine (2006)
  • "Praisesong on the Passage of a Brilliant Star, from a Dreamer Below" essay in CALLALOO" Volume 29.2 (2006)
  • "Survivor at rest" poem in HURRICANE BLUES: Poems about Katrina and Rita (2006) edited by Philip C. Kolin and Susan Swartwout
  • "Lore" poem in SOUTHERN REVIVAL: DEEP MAGIC FOR HURRICANE RELIEF (2006) edited by Tamara Kaye Sellman
  • "Ezilie in Cavaillon" in MYTHIC 2 (2006)
  • "Untitled Old Scratch poem, featuring River" in MYTHIC DELIRIUM (2006), nominated for the Pushcart Prize
  • "Touch" story in COLORLINES Magazine: The national magazine on race and politics (2006)
  • "sky in west memphis" poem and "lightning" in THE RINGING EAR: Black Poets Lean South (2007) edited by Nikky Finney
  • "Malaika Descending" story in BRONX BIANNUAL 2: The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature (2007) edited by Miles Marshall Lewis
  • "What's Your Fantasy: MARVELOUS WORLD" article in VIBE (2007)
  • "Fallen" poem in THE 2007 RHYSLING ANTHOLOGY: THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND HORROR POETRY OF 2006 edited by Drew Morse (Science Fiction Poetry Association with Prime Books)
  • "Bender's Bow" story in COLORLINES Magazine: The national magazine on race and politics (2008)

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