Please remember to chat with us during the interview, and if you enjoy the episode, please also become a patron or patroness to help keep this podcast going. I’m your host, Lara Ehrlich, and our guest tonight is Tananarive Due. Hello, and welcome to Writer Mother Monster. She has a 17-year-old son and 35-year-old stepdaughter and describes writer-motherhood in three words as “every single day.” 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. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. 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. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote “A Small Town” for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone on CBS All Access. Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA and is an executive producer on Shudder’s groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. Watch / listen to the episode & learn more
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