Please join us for a chat with Tananarive Due about her newest work\, \;The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. \;The second collection of stories by the author is full of her signature offerings of horror\, science fiction\, and suspense while confronting mon sters of all kinds\, including racism\, the monster within\, and the super natural. Due&rsquo\;s prolific body of work cements the author as a leadin g voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years. Due is an awa rd-winning writer\, educator\, and producer. Her body of work includes six teen books\, including the \;Blood Colony\, \;The Living Blood\,&n bsp\;The Good House\, \;Joplin&rsquo\;s Ghost\, \;Devil&rsquo\;s W ake\, and the forthcoming \;The Reformatory. In addition\, she is a co ntributing author of \;Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda \;and \ ;Black Panther: Sins of the King. Collaborating with her partner Steven Ba rnes\, she also co-wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele&rsquo \;s "The Twilight Zone" on Paramount Plus and two segments of Shudder&rsqu o\;s anthology film \;Horror Noire.
\nAbout the Author: \;Ta nanarive Due is an American Book Award&ndash\;winning\, \;Essence \;bestselling author of sixteen books. She was also a contributor to Jonat han Maberry&rsquo\;s middle grade anthology\, \;Don&rsquo\;t Turn Out the Lights. She has won an American Book Award\, an NAACP Image Award\, an d a British Fantasy Award. She teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UC LA. She lives in Atlanta\, Georgia. Visit her website TananariveDue.com.\n
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