Zócalo Public SquareAfrofuturist Writer Sheree Renée Thomas – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Afrofuturist Writer Sheree Renée Thomas https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/09/30/afrofuturist-writer-sheree-renee-thomas/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/09/30/afrofuturist-writer-sheree-renee-thomas/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:01:49 +0000 Jer Xiong https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=130727 Sheree Renée Thomas is a Memphis-based fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. Among other works, she wrote the fiction collection Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, and edited the World Fantasy Award-winning anthologies Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Before the Zócalo/Experience ASU event “How Should We Prepare for the Aliens to Arrive on Earth?,” she sat down in our green room to tell us about Afrofuturism, the best thing about Earthlings, and which Beyoncé song she’s got caught in her ear.

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]]> Sheree Renée Thomas is a Memphis-based fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. Among other works, she wrote the fiction collection Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, and edited the World Fantasy Award-winning anthologies Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Before the Zócalo/Experience ASU event “How Should We Prepare for the Aliens to Arrive on Earth?,” she sat down in our green room to tell us about Afrofuturism, the best thing about Earthlings, and which Beyoncé song she’s got caught in her ear.

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