Author · born 1966
Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due (born 1966) is an American writer. Born in Tallahassee.
Our catalogue lists 5 books by Tananarive Due, mostly horror, occult fiction and ghost story. They span 1995 to 2023. The most-read is The Good House (2003).
Books by Tananarive Due
The Good House
Tananarive Due
The Between
Tananarive Due, María Pérez de San Román
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
My Soul to Keep
Tananarive Due
The Living Blood
Tananarive Due
Awards
- 🏆World Fantasy Awards 2024 — Best Novel, The Reformatory (winner)
- 🏆World Fantasy Awards 2023 — Best Short Fiction, Incident at Bear Creek Lodge (winner)
- ✦Locus Awards 2026 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2025 — Best Novelette, A Stranger Knocks (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Collection, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Horror Novel, The Reformatory (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Short Story, Suppertime (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2023 — Best Novelette, Incident at Bear Creek Lodge (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2022 — Best Short Story, The Wishing Pool (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Collection, Ghost Summer (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2001 — Best Short Story, Patient Zero (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1998 — Best Fantasy Novel, My Soul to Keep (nominee)
- 🏆Bram Stoker Awards 2023 — Novel, The Reformatory (winner)
- ✦Bram Stoker Awards 1997 — Novel, My Soul to Keep (nominee)
- ✦Bram Stoker Awards 1995 — Best First Novel, The Between (nominee)
- 🏆British Fantasy Awards 2016 — Best Collection, Ghost Summer (winner)
- ✦Ignyte Awards 2025 — Best Novelette, A Stranger Knocks (nominee)
- 🏆Ignyte Awards 2022 — The Ember Award (winner)
- 🏆Ignyte Awards 2020 — Best in Creative Nonfiction (winner)
Biography
Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. 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. Her books include ***The Reformatory*** (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award, and a New York Times Notable Book), ***The Wishing Pool and Other Stories***, ***Ghost Summer: Stories***, ***My Soul to Keep***, and ***The Good House***. 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***. She was an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary *Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror*. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s "The Twilight Zone" on Paramount Plus, and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film *Horror Noire*. They also co-wrote their Black Horror graphic novel ***The Keeper***, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!" She and her husband live with their son, Jason.