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Tananarive Due


USA flag (b.1966)
Wife of Steven Barnes

Tananarive Due is the author of The Black Rose, My Soul to Keep and The Between, and was a collaborator on the best-selling novel, Naked Came the Manatee. Her short fiction was included in the groundbreaking Dark Matter, an anthology of black American science fiction and fantasy. A two-time finalist for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award, the former Miami Herald columnist lives in Washington state with her husband, novelist Steven Barnes.
 

Awards: WFA (2024), Jackson (2023), LA Times (2023), Stoker (2023)  see all

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery
 
Series
African Immortals
   1. My Soul to Keep (1997)
   2. The Living Blood (2001)
   3. Blood Colony (2008)
   4. My Soul to Take (2011)
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Tennyson Hardwick (with Steven Barnes)
   1. Casanegra (2007)
   2. In the Night of the Heat (2008)
   3. From Cape Town with Love (2010)
   4. South by Southeast (2012)
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Devil's Wake (with Steven Barnes)
   1. Devil's Wake (2012)
   2. Domino Falls (2013)
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Novels
   The Between (1995)
   Naked Came the Manatee (1997) (with others)
   The Black Rose (2000)
   The Good House (2003)
   Joplin's Ghost (2005)
   The Reformatory (2023)
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Collections
   The Ancestors (2008) (with L A Banks and Brandon Massey)
   Ghost Summer (2015)
   Whose Future Is It? (2018) (with others)
   The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Lake (2011)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Tananarive Due
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The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction: 2023 (2024)
(Year's Best African Speculative Fiction)
edited by
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighalaby
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume 16 (2024)
(Best Horror of the Year, book 16)
edited by
Ellen Datlow

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Awards
2024 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : The Reformatory
2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : Incident at Bear Creek Lodge
2023 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel : The Reformatory
2023 Ray Bradbury Prize : The Reformatory
2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel : The Reformatory
2016 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection : Ghost Summer

Award nominations
2025 Locus Award for Best Novelette (finalist) : A Stranger Knocks
2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novelette (nominee) : A Stranger Knocks
2024 Locus Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Suppertime
2024 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
2024 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : The Reformatory
2024 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : The Reformatory
2023 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Incident at Bear Creek Lodge
2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Rumpus Room
2015 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Herd Immunity
1998 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : My Soul to Keep
1997 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : My Soul to Keep
1995 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel (nominee) : The Between


Tananarive Due recommends
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The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre (2025)
Philip Fracassi
"Fracassi blends the true-life horror of aging and society's scorn for the elderly with an original slasher premise and reimagined Final Girl. The question isn't who will die at the Autumn Springs Retirement Home - but who will survive? Diabolically delightful."
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Salt Bones (2025)
Jennifer Givhan
"Jennifer Givhan's lyricism and rich storytelling immediately snatch you into this irresistible world of secrets, grief, and horror. Givhan's poet's voice brings depth and urgency to a story that feels both contemporary and as old as time, exploring the fault lines between mothers and daughters, myth and reality, beauty and horror."
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The Bewitching (2025)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"In Silvia Moreno-Garcia's sure hands, every uncovered secret is fraught with intrigue and creeping horror. This multigenerational story weaves class, history, and brujeria in the way only Moreno-Garcia can. Fans of Silver Nitrate and Mexican Gothic can rejoice - The Bewitching does not disappoint!"

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