You won’t want to miss this fabulous episode of The Collective.
Tananarive Due is changing the genre of horror. We chat about Due’s book, The Reformatory, and the long and difficult task of researching historical horrors to write a horror novel. Due talks about her family, the youth that passed at the Dozier School for Boys, juvenile halls, civil rights, and politics today.
Bio: TANANARIVE DUE (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder’s groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote « A Small Town » for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s « The Twilight Zone » on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also co-wrote their upcoming Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, « Lifewriting: Write for Your Life! » A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. She and her husband live with their son, Jason. https://www.tananarivedue.com/
This episode was previously recorded and edited for live radio. You can also find all the links to KQBH, Spotify, and Substack on @byginaduran’s website at byginaduran.com
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Collective Revolution Through the Horror of History