TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is the award-winning author of The Wishing Pool & Other Stories and the upcoming The Reformatory ("A masterpiece"—Library Journal). She and her husband, Steven Barnes, co-wrote the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!" A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason.
Series
Books
Nightmare Magazine 49
October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue
2016
Sunspot Jungle
Volume Two: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction
2019
The Good House
2003
Christmas and Other Horrors
A Winter Solstice Anthology
2023
Ghost Summer
2015
Dark Matter
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
2000
The Lake
2011
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
2023
The Year's Best Science Fiction
Eighteenth Annual Collection
2001
Blood Colony
2008
From Cape Town with Love
2010
The Reformatory
2023
Revelations
Horror Writers for Climate Action
2022
Milestones In History (2022) #1 (Milestone Returns
2022
Marvel's Black Panther
Sins of the King
2021
The Between
1995
My Soul to Take
2011
Out There Screaming
2023
My Soul to Keep
1997
Naked Came the Manatee
1997
The End of the World As We Know It
New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
2025
The Ancestors
2008
The Living Blood
2001
Black Panther
Tales of Wakanda
2021
Cemetery Dance Magazine, Issue 60
2009
The Keeper
A Graphic Novel
2022
Nightmare Magazine 3
December 2012
2012
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 100
2020
Mazywood
2026
Freedom in the Family
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
2003
Don’t Turn Out the Lights
A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2020
Mazywood
2026
A Darker Shade of Noir
New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers
2023
Wastelands 2
More Stories of the Apocalypse
2015
The End Has Come
2015
The Black Rose
2000
Apex Magazine, Issue 120 May 2019
2019
New Suns 2
Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
2023
Joplin's Ghost
2005
