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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Tone
2023
with Kate Zambreno
Spelling the Hours: Poetry Celebrating the Forgotten Others of Science and Technology
2016
with Mari Ness
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
2016
with Genevieve Valentine, Marjorie M. Liu, Daryl Gregory, Jeffrey Ford, Kat Howard, Garth Nix and Max Gladstone
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 60 - Dec. 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue
2016
with N. K. Jemisin, Shweta Narayan and Darcie Little Badger
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
2015
with Jo Walton, Alaya Dawn Johnson and Cat Rambo
Fantasy Magazine, October 2014: Women Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue
2014
with Delia Sherman, Carol Emshwiller, Kat Howard and Emma Bull
