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Tananarive Due

Writing

Born January 5, 1966 · Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Biography

Tananarive Priscilla Due is an American author and educator. Due won the American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood (2001), and the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award for her novel The Reformatory (2023). She is also known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. Due teaches a course at UCLA called "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic", which focuses on the Jordan Peele film Get Out.

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Awards & recognition

  • World Fantasy AwardBest Novel · 2024
  • Bram Stoker AwardNovel · 2023
  • World Fantasy AwardBest Short Fiction · 2023
  • Ignyte AwardBest in Creative Nonfiction · 2020
  • British Fantasy AwardBest Collection · 2016
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  • American Book Awards · 2002
  • Ignyte AwardBest Novelette · 2025 · nominated
  • Locus AwardBest Novelette · 2025 · nominated
  • Locus AwardBest Collection · 2024 · nominated
  • Locus AwardBest Short Story · 2024 · nominated
  • Locus AwardBest Horror Novel · 2024 · nominated
  • Locus AwardBest Novelette · 2023 · nominated
  • Locus AwardBest Short Story · 2022 · nominated
  • Locus AwardBest Collection · 2016 · nominated
  • Theodore Sturgeon Award · 2015 · nominated
  • Locus AwardBest Short Story · 2001 · nominated
  • Locus AwardBest Fantasy Novel · 1998 · nominated
  • Bram Stoker AwardNovel · 1997 · nominated
  • Bram Stoker AwardBest First Novel · 1995 · nominated

Filmography9 titles