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During her delivery of the Guest of Honour speech at the 2013 Continuum in Australia, Jemisin pointed out that 10% of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) membership voted for alt-right writer Theodore Beale, known as Vox Day, in his bid for the SFWA presidential position, stating that silence about Beale's views was the ...
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and commonly known as SFWA (/ ˈ s ɪ f w ə / or / ˈ s ɛ f w ə /) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. While SFWA is based in the United States, its membership is open to ...
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards.
Andrea Hairston (born 1952) is an African-American science fiction and fantasy playwright and novelist. [1] Her novel Redwood and Wildfire won the James Tiptree Jr. Award for 2011. [ 2 ] Mindscape , Hairston's first novel, won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and was short-listed for the Philip K. Dick Award and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. [ 3 ]
Roseanne A. Brown (born 1995), writer of fantasy, science fiction and young adult fiction Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the District of Columbia William Wells Brown (1814–1884), wrote first novel published by an African American, Clotel (1853)
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America. Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching foodways of the African Diaspora. This book examines ...
Davin reports that only L. Taylor Hansen concealed her sex in early years, and that C. L. Moore wanted to hide her career as a science fiction author from her job. Women writers were in a minority: during the '50s and '60s, almost 1,000 stories published in science fiction magazines by over 200 female-identified authors between 1926 and 1960 ...
Linda D. Addison (born September 8, 1952) is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.Addison is the first African-American winner of the Bram Stoker Award, which she won five times.