Black Speculative Fiction Panel

Join us for a Black Speculative Fiction Panel!

Some of the foremost authors in the world of speculative fiction -- Tananarive Due, Justin C Key, and Ezra Claytan Daniels, -- will be joined by moderator Allison Mick to talk all things horror, science-fiction, and fantasy, plus the long history and future of POC writers in those diverse and disparate genres.

About the participants:

Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com.

Ezra Claytan Daniels is a mixed-race American multidisciplinary artist and creator of the award-winning graphic novels Upgrade Soul (Oni Press) and BTTM FDRS (Fantagraphics Books). Ezra currently resides in Los Angeles, where he writes for film and television, including the upcoming 3rd season of Severance for Apple TV+.

Justin C. Key is a practicing psychiatrist and a speculative fiction writer. He is the author of the debut novel The Hospital at the End of the World and the story collection The World Wasn’t Ready for You. His stories have appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Lightspeed, and on Tor.com. He received a BA in biology from Stanford University and completed his residency in psychiatry at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Allison Mick is a Los Angeles–based comedy and animation writer from the Great Lakes. Mick’s writing appears in Trailer Park Boys: Big A$$ Comic Collection (Devil’s Due Comics) and The Hard Times: The First 40 Years (Mariner Books). She was a contributor to the Los Suelos, CA interactive fiction anthology and voices Cougara on the Adult Swim Shorts series High Moon Queen. You can find all sorts of stuff at allison-mick.com.

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