Publications

For information on novels and novellas, visit the Books page.

Selected Shorts in Anthologies & Collections

  • Ex Marginalia

    Inside: “Exposition Tax: The hidden burden of writing from the margins” (Finalist, British Science Fiction Awards).

  • The Year's Best SF Vol. 1

    Inside: “Dune Song” (reprint)
    Adult, science fiction
    The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020

  • Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda

    Inside: “Stronger in Spirit”
    Adult, science fiction / fantasy
    Black Panther short story anthology

  • Black Boy Joy

    Inside: “Five-Thousand Light-Years to Home”
    Middle grade
    #1 New York Times Bestseller

  • Black Panther: Dreams of Wakanda

    Inside: “Wakanda: A Door Ajar”
    Essay anthology

  • The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, Vol. 1

    Inside: “We Come as Gods” (reprint, 2021)
    Adult, fantasy

  • Breathe FIYAH

    Inside: “We Come as Gods”
    Tor.com + FIYAH Literary Magazine

  • Imagining Health Futures

    Inside: “SelfCare”
    Adult, science fiction

  • Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora

    Inside: “Sleep Papa, Sleep” (reprint)

  • Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World

    Inside: “The Case of the Moaning Marquee”

  • Fireside Quarterly | Fall 2019

    Inside: “The Haunting of 13 Olúwo Street”

  • Smash! Special

    Inside: “Mytek the Mighty”
    Comic collection, 2000AD

  • A World of Horror

    Inside: “The Secret Life of the Unclaimed”

  • Lights Out: Resurrection

    Inside: “Sleep Papa, Sleep”

  • People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!

    Inside: “This Is What Happens to Us” (essay)
    June 2016

Selected Short Fiction: Periodicals

Rigland,” Slate, December 2024.

Lady Koi-Koi: A Book Report,” Apex Magazine, June 2023. (Finalist, British Science Fiction Awards).

Choke,” Tor.com, September 2022.

“Sympathy,” Us in Flux, ASU Center for Science & the Imagination, August 2022

“Dune Song,” Apex Magazine, Issue 120, May 2019. (Audio: LeVar Burton Reads, September 2020.)

“The Secret Life of the Unclaimed,” Nightmare Magazine, November 2019 (reprint)

“When You Find Such a Thing,” PodCastle, November 2017

“Our Secrets, In Keys,” Fireside Magazine, Issue 46, August 2017

“Can Anything Good Come,” The Dark Magazine, Issue 21, February 2017

“Of Tarts and New Beginnings,” Omenana, Issue 8, November 2016

Selected Essays & Nonfiction: Periodicals