Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon nominated author of the Abeni’s Song series, the novel A Master of Djinn, and the novellas The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Apex magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including Hidden Youth and Black Boy Joy.
When not writing speculative fiction, he is an academic historian whose research examines slavery and emancipation in the Black Atlantic. At present time, he resides in a small Edwardian castle in New England with his wife, twin daughters, and pet dragon (who suspiciously resembles a Boston Terrier). His next work, Abeni and the People Who Could Fly, will be released in September 2027.