Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning author, poet, and editor whose work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. She is the author of the collections Mojorhythm (Third Man Books, 2025), Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, 2020), Sleeping Under the Tree of Life(Aqueduct Press, 2016), and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems (Aqueduct Press, 2011). A New York Times bestselling collaborator with Janelle Monáe on “Timebox Altar(ed)” in The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer. Honored with the Octavia E. Butler Award, she edited the groundbreaking, 3-time World Fantasy Award-winning anthologies, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the Africa Diaspora, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction. She is the Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Associate Editor of Obsidian. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee, between a mighty river and a pyramid.