Tamika Thompson

Tamika is the author of UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED (Unnerving Books), which is the Horror WINNER in the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and which Publishers Weekly calls "powerful," "unsettling," and "terrifying," as well as author of SALAMANDER JUSTICE (Madness Heart Press). She is co-creator of the artist collective POC United, and fiction editor for the group's Foreword INDIES Award-winning anthology, GRAFFITI. Her work has appeared in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University and a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she hosts her own blog and newsletter, Tamika Talks Terror.