Sheree Renée Thomas is the author of Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press, August 2016), named on the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Long list, Shotgun Lullabies (Aqueduct Press, January 2011), and the editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning Dark Matter anthologies. Read her new essay in the collection, Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (Twelfth Planet Press, September 2017) and her short stories and poems in Sycorax’s Daughters (March 2017), Apex Magazine Issue 95 (April 2017), Stories for Chip, Revise the Psalm, The Moment of Change, Mojo: Conjure Stories, An Alphabet of Embers, Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, Jalada, So Long Been Dreaming, Memphis Noir, Harvard’s Transition, and Mojo Rising: Contemporary Writers (September 2017). Find her @blackpotmojo or visit her publisher’s website.