Sheree Thomas

Sheree Renée Thomas was the 2015 Lucille Geier Lakes Writer-in-Residence at Smith College where she taught "Writing the Marvelous Real," a short fiction class that explored magical realism. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, she writes between a river and a pyramid. A Cave Canem and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, she is the author of Shotgun Lullabies (Aqueduct Press) and the editor of Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Warner) and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Hachette), winner of the 2001 and 2005 World Fantasy Award and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Look for her work in Smith's Meridians, Harvard's Transition, The Ringing Ear edited by Nikky Finney, Mojo: Conjure Stories and So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy edited by Uppinder Mehan & Nalo Hopkinson. She has new fiction forthcoming in 2015 in Memphis Noir (Akashic Press), An Alphabet of Embers (Stone Bird Press), Revenge (Robocup Press) and Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (Rosarium).