Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and Mississippi Delta conjure. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (2020) is her first all prose collection. She is the author of the Marvel novel adaptation of the legendary comics, Black Panther: Panther's Rage (2022). She is also the author of two multigenre/hybrid collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (2016), longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review, and Shotgun Lullabies (2011).

She edited the World Fantasy-winning groundbreaking black speculative fiction anthologies, Dark Matter (2000 and 2004) and is the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois's science fiction short stories. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage, 2020). She is the Associate Editor of the historic Black arts literary journal, Obsidian: Literature & the Arts in the African Diaspora, founded in 1975 and is the Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949. She also writes book reviews for Asimov's.

She was honored as a 2020 World Fantasy Award Finalist in the Special Award - Professional category for contributions to the genre and wa Co-Host of the 2021 Hugo Awards Ceremony at Discon III in Washington, DC with Malka Older. She is a Marvel writer and contributor to the groundbreaking anthology, Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda edited by Jesse J. Holland. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid.

Introduction by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
"The Blue House" by Dilman Dila
"March Magic" by WC Dunlap
"IRL" by Steven Barnes
"The Deification of Igodo" by Joshua Uchenna Omenga
"Mami Wataworks" by Russell Nichols
"Rear Mirror" by Nuzo Onoh
"Door Crashers" by Franka Zeph
"The Soul Would Have No Rainbow" by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
"A Dream of Electric Mothers" by Wole Talabi
"Simbi" by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
"Housewarming for a Lion Goddess" by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
"A Knight in Tunisia" by Alex Jennings
"The Devil Is Us" by Mirette Bahgat
"Cloud Mine" by Timi Odueso
"Ruler of the Rear Guard" by Maurice Broaddus
"Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition)" by Tlotlo Tsamaase
"The Sugar Mill" by Tobias S. Buckell
"The Carving of War" by Somto Ihezue Onyedikachi
"Ghost Ship" by Tananarive Due
"Liquid Twilight" by Ytasha Womack
"Once Upon a Time in 1967" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees
"A Girl Crawls in a Dark Corner" by Alexis Brooks de Vita
"The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library" by Tobi Ogundiran
"When the Mami Wata Met a Demon" by Moustapha Mbacké Diop
"The Papermakers" by Akua Lezli Hope
"A Soul of Small Places" by Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo
"Air to Shape Lungs" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
"Hanfo Driver" by Ada Nnadi
"Exiles of Witchery" by Ivana Akotowaa Ofori
"The Taloned Beast" by Chinelo Onwualu
"Star Watchers" by Danian Darrell Jerry
"Biscuit & Milk" by Dare Segun Falowo