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Sofia Samatar

Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories; the short story collection Tender; and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has received the IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, a British Fantasy Award and a World Fantasy Award. She has also been a finalist for a Locus Award, a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award and the Calvino Prize. Her work has appeared in several 'best of the year' anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Samatar holds a PhD in African languages and literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and she currently teaches African literature, Arabic literature in translation and speculative fiction at James Madison University. (Source: HURST publisher author bio.) Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.

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the huntress

the huntress

Afrofuturisme

Afrofuturisme

with Stephanie Nicot and Rivers Solomon

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 108, May 2019

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 108, May 2019

with John Joseph Adams, Kurt Fawver, Max Gladstone and Matthew Kressel

Mooncalves: Strange Stories

Mooncalves: Strange Stories

with Glen Hirshberg and Christi Nogle

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 133, June 2021

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 133, June 2021

with Adam R. Shannon and Gordon B. White

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 139, December 2021

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 139, December 2021

with Aimee Ogden and E. Lily Yu

Uncanny Magazine Issue Three

Uncanny Magazine Issue Three

The Closest Thing to Animals

The Closest Thing to Animals

La pratique, l'horizon et la chaine

La pratique, l'horizon et la chaine

2026
Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life

Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life

2024
Tone

Tone

2023

with Kate Zambreno

The White Mosque

The White Mosque

2022
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 127, December 2020

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 127, December 2020

2020

with Maurice Broaddus

Cuentos de hadas para robots

Cuentos de hadas para robots

2020
Futures & Fantasies

Futures & Fantasies

2018

with Ashok K. Banker and Caroline M. Yoachim

Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018

Lightspeed Magazine, September 2018

2018

with Maria Dahvana Headley

Hard Mary

Hard Mary

2018
Tender: Stories

Tender: Stories

2017
Spelling the Hours: Poetry Celebrating the Forgotten Others of Science and Technology

Spelling the Hours: Poetry Celebrating the Forgotten Others of Science and Technology

2016

with Mari Ness

The Winged Histories

The Winged Histories

2016
Polychrome Futures and Fantasies

Polychrome Futures and Fantasies

2016

with Samuel Peralta, Alaya Dawn Johnson and Gabriela Lee

Fantasy Magazine, Issue 60 - Dec. 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue

Fantasy Magazine, Issue 60 - Dec. 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue

2016

with N. K. Jemisin, Shweta Narayan, Darcie Little Badger and Celeste Rita Baker

The Humanity of Monsters

The Humanity of Monsters

2015

with Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Nathan Ballingrud and Indrapramit Das

APB: Artists Against Police Brutality

APB: Artists Against Police Brutality

2015

with Dean Haspiel

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

2015

with Jo Walton, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Cat Rambo, Nathan Ballingrud and Kelly Link

Fantasy Magazine, October 2014: Women Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue

Fantasy Magazine, October 2014: Women Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue

2014

with Delia Sherman, Carol Emshwiller, Kat Howard, Emma Bull and T. Kingfisher

How to Get Back to the Forest

How to Get Back to the Forest

2014
Lightspeed Magazine, March 2014

Lightspeed Magazine, March 2014

2014

with Jo Walton, Kim Stanley Robinson and Eileen Gunn

A Stranger in Olondria

A Stranger in Olondria

2013
Aliens: Recent Encounters

Aliens: Recent Encounters

2013

with Zen Cho, An Owomoyela, Brooke Bolander, Jeremiah Tolbert and Desirina Boskovich

The Moment of Change

The Moment of Change

2012

with Vandana Singh, Athena Andreadis and Kelly Rose Pflug-Back

Novellas1

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

2024

Graphic novels1

Monster Portraits

Monster Portraits

2017

Collections1

Weird Dream Society: An Anthology of the Possible & Unsubstantiated in Support of RAICES

Weird Dream Society: An Anthology of the Possible & Unsubstantiated in Support of RAICES

1988

with Julie C. Day, Jordan Kurella, Gregory Norman Bossert, James Patrick Kelly, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Nathan Ballingrud, A.T. Greenblatt and Matthew Kressel