That debut novella managed to wow me beyond words. Review: Tenebrous Press, as an independent publisher, first caught my attention with Valkyrie Loughcrewe’s debut, Crom Cruach. That it had been her fault.Ĭontent Warnings: Gore, Mild Body Horror, Sexism But vanishing? That ripped a hole in the world the size of a life, and through that hole sighed a terrible wind repeating a single note:įor years, Aggie had forgotten the real Joanne, the way her sister had laughed, fought, been.īut now that the videotape made her real again-no matter how many times the recording changed, no matter how terrifying the flickering images-it was all Aggie wanted. Jennings is also founder and curator of the ABRAMS Megascope line of graphic novels.Summary: A grave could be visited. Jennings' current projects include the horror anthology Box of Bones, the coffee table book Black Comix Returns (with Damian Duffy), and the Eisner-winning, Bram Stoker Award-winning, New York Times best-selling graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's classic dark fantasy novel Kindred. Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. John Ira Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Poet Nikki Giovanni compared her writing to that of Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison, and Samuel Delany called her 'a formidable new master of the macabre.” Burke’s novel, The Strange Crimes of Little Africa, has garnered critical acclaim by writers such as Tananarive Due and Kiese Laymon. Her upcoming book, Hero Me Not, examines the multifaceted dimensions of the comic book character Ororo, Storm from the X-men. Burke is the Chair of Wiscon’s Anti-Abuse Team, which is a national science fiction, feminist conference, and her story collection, Let’s Play White, is being taught in universities around the country. In addition, she wrote several articles for the African American National Biography published by Harvard and Oxford University Press. Burke received her Master’s degree in African American Studies from Georgia State University and was a double fellow, receiving both the Florida Education Fund McKnight Fellowship and the PhD Graduate Student Fellowship from the University of Florida. Her primary areas of study are in African American literature, race and gender studies, comics and speculative fiction. Having written and published nearly a hundred fiction pieces and articles within the genres of science fiction, fantasy, comics and horror, her academic research focuses primarily on the intersections of race, gender and genre.

Let's Play White by Chesya Burke