Tananarive Due

Website https://www.tananarivedue.com/

Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com. Her newest book, Mazywood, releases September 22, 2026.

Mazywood book cover

Categories: FICTION, PBF2026

Events with Tananarive Due

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    Mazywood: Tananarive Due

    This literary thriller follows the grandson of a famous Black actress from the 1920s to the 1940s, now a filmmaker himself, who returns to his grandmother's cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood. Interviewed by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya. Limited guaranteed seat tickets with book included available; most of the theatre will be first-come first-served with a PBF GA pass.

    Presenters Tananarive Due, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
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    Venue Portland’5: Newmark Theatre
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