Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due is an American writer of horror, science fiction and mystery, born in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1966. Her debut novel The Between appeared in 1995, and she went on to write the African Immortals series, beginning with My Soul to Keep, as well as The Good House.

Her novel The Reformatory won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel along with the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards; her story collection Ghost Summer won the British Fantasy Award, and The Living Blood earned an American Book Award.

Due is also a scholar of Black horror: she teaches at UCLA, where she created the course The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic, and has previously held an endowed chair at Spelman College.