Tananarive Due is an award-winning American author, educator, and leading voice in Black horror and speculative fiction. Born in Tallahassee, Florida, to civil rights activists John Dorsey Due Jr. and Patricia Stephens Due, she draws on Black history, family legacy, and the supernatural throughout her work. Her novels include The Between, My Soul to Keep, The Good House, and The Reformatory, her acclaimed 2023 historical horror novel inspired in part by Florida’s notorious Dozier School for Boys and her own family history. Due also teaches Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA and has worked in film and television, including as an executive producer of the documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror.