Publications
For information on novels and novellas, visit the Books page.
Selected Shorts in Anthologies & Collections
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Ex Marginalia
Inside: “Exposition Tax: The hidden burden of writing from the margins” (Finalist, British Science Fiction Awards).
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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 -
Breathe FIYAH
Inside: “We Come as Gods”
Tor.com + FIYAH Literary Magazine -
Imagining Health Futures
Inside: “SelfCare”
Adult, science fiction -
Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World
Inside: “The Case of the Moaning Marquee”
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Fireside Quarterly | Fall 2019
Inside: “The Haunting of 13 Olúwo Street”
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Smash! Special
Inside: “Mytek the Mighty”
Comic collection, 2000AD -
A World of Horror
Inside: “The Secret Life of the Unclaimed”
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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,” Reactor (formerly 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
“A Sequel, in Protests.” Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds. November 2023.
“The Future Is Divergent: On ‘Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century.’” Los Angeles Review of Books. September 2021.
“The H-Word: Universal Scare, Local Fear.” Nightmare Magazine. September 2020.
“The African Superhero and the Legacy of Captain Africa.” Tor.com. August 2020.
“Where Are Our Black Boys on Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel Covers?” Tor.com. June 2020.
“‘Post’ For Whom? Examining the Socioeconomics of a Post-Apocalypse.” Strange Horizons. August 2019.
“Internal Machinations of the Human Spirit: In Conversation With Venita Blackburn.” Sonora Review. October 2018.