Sheree Thomas also credited as Sheree R. Thomas and Sheree Renée Thomas is a writer, book editor and publisher whose Dark Matter

Dark Matter (series)

Dark Matter is an anthology series of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror stories and essays produced by people of African descent. The editor of the series is Sheree Thomas. The first book in the series, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora won the 2001 World...

 collected the works of some of the best African American Science Fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

, Horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 and Fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 writers. Authors such as Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany

Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., also known as "Chip" is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society.His science fiction novels include Babel-17, The Einstein...

, Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler

Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.- Background :Butler...

, Charles R. Saunders

Charles R. Saunders

Charles R. Saunders also credited as Charles Saunders is an African American author and journalist currently living in Canada. During his long career, he has written everything from novels both fiction and non-fiction, to screenplays and radio plays.- Background :Saunders was born in Elizabeth,...

, Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is an African American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician....

, Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is an American author.-Biography:Tananarive Priscilla Due was born in Tallahassee, Florida, the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr...

, Jewelle Gomez

Jewelle Gomez

Jewelle Gomez is an American author, poet, critic and playwright. She lived and worked in New York City for twenty-two years working in public television, theatre as well as philanthropy before relocating to the West Coast...

, Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. A prominent African-American literary figure, Reed is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture, and highlighting political and cultural oppression.Reed has been described as one of the most controversial...

, Kalamu ya Salaam

Kalamu ya Salaam

Kalamu ya Salaam, born 24 March 1947, is a poet, author, and teacher from the 9th Ward of New Orleans. A well known activist and social critic, Salaam has spoken out on a number of racial and human rights issues. For years he did radio shows on WWOZ. Salaam is the co-founder of the NOMMO Literary...

, Robert Fleming

Robert Fleming (author)

Robert Fleming is a journalist and writer of Erotic fiction and Horror fiction. He is also a contributing editor for Black Issues Book Review...

, and Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.Hopkinson has...

. Venerable writers like George S. Schuyler and W. E. B. Du Bois also had stories included in the collection. Dark Matter was honored with the 2005 and the 2001 World Fantasy Award

World Fantasy Award

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 and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Thomas is the publisher of Wanganegresse Press, has contributed to national publications including the Washington Post Book World, Black Issues Book Review

Black Issues Book Review

Black Issues Book Review was a bimonthly magazine published in the U.S. in which books of interest to African-American readers were reviewed. It was published from 1999 through 2007....

, QBR, and Hip Mama

Hip Mama

Hip Mama: The Parenting Zine is an American Alternative Press Award-winning quarterly periodical covering the culture and politics of parenting...

. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Ishmael Reed's Konch

Konch

Konch is a city and a municipal board in Jalaun district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.- Geography :Konch is located at . It has an average elevation of 141 metres . Konch is a small town in district Jalaun of Uttar Pradesh...

, Drumvoices Revue, Obsidian III, African Voices, storySouth

StorySouth

storySouth is an online quarterly literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, criticism, essays, and visual artwork, with a focus on the Southern United States. The journal also runs the annual Million Writers Award to select the best short stories published each year in online magazines or...

, and other literary journals and has received Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 16th and 17th annual collections. A native of Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

, she lives in New York City

New York City

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Interviews

• You Are Not Alone: An Interview with Sheree R. Thomas, ColoredGirls.com (2001)
• Black Science Fiction and Fantasy with Tananarive Due
  Tananarive Due
  Tananarive Due is an American author.-Biography:Tananarive Priscilla Due was born in Tallahassee, Florida, the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr...
  
  , Steven Barnes
  Steven Barnes
  Steven Barnes is an African American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician....
  
  , and Sheree R. Thomas on NPR, News & Notes, August 13, 2007 (Audio)
• Creating Dark Matter: An Interview with Sheree Renée Thomas, Strange Horizons (2009)
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct, "Aqueduct Press: Conversation Pieces" (2011)

Sources

• Sheree Thomas Bibliography site by Hachette Book Group
• Joe Monti's Scifi.com review of Dark Matter
• Pamela Sargent's review of Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
• Steven Silver's review of Dark Matter
• AALBC Author page with Sheree Thomas
• SHOTGUN LULLABIES: Stories & Poems by Sheree Renée Thomas
• Aqueduct Press Author page with Sheree Renée Thomas

External links

• Blackpot Mojo -- Sheree Thomas' Blog