Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda

“It’s well worth your time, especially if you are a fan”
Financial Times

“Absolutely filled to the brim with brand new stories… giving voices to those who are not just diverse because they are Black but because of the various cultural backgrounds and experiences they bring to the table.” Culturess

“Add[s] to Black Panther and Wakanda’s richly storied history.” ScreenRant

“This anthology should sate fans longing for the next ‘Black Panther’ installment.” 3⁄4 Stars, USA Today

“I was engrossed, and devoured this novel in about a day. Some of that is due to the title character… The rest is that Hudlin created a compelling story that Holland was able to translate incredibly well to the written page.” Patrick Hellen, AIPT for Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther?

“Jesse J. Holland’s riveting book The Invisibles shines a long overdue light on the enslaved men and women who were forced to serve in the nation’s seat of executive power.” J.D. Dickey, author of Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC

“Although some slaves’ lives have been lost to history, Holland creates a vivid portrait of many, including William Lee, who worked as Washington’s ‘body servant’…” Kirkus for The Invisibles

• Jesse J. Holland is a bestselling non-fiction author, longtime comic book and science-fiction fan, and the writer of the children’s novel Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Finn’s Story, co-author of the collegiate comic strip Hippie and the Black Guy. He is a Race & Ethnicity reporter with The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. and currently lives in Bowie, Maryland, with his wife and children.

• Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning writer, poet, editor, and a 2023 Hugo Award Finalist and Locus Award Winner. She was honored with the 2023 Octavia E. Butler Award and was also an Ember Award Finalist. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, music, and the culture of the Mississippi Delta. She is the author of the short fiction collection, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, a Finalist for the 2021 Locus Award, Ignyte Award, and World Fantasy Award for Year’s Best Collection and winner of the 2022 Darrell Award for Year’s Best Novella. She is the winner of the 2022 Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award and is #339 in the Walter Day Science Fiction Hall of Fame Trading Cards. She is also the author of collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems. She edited the two-time World Fantasy Award-winning Dark Matter anthologies, co-edited Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue with Pan Morigan and Troy L. Wiggins, and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction with Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, a NAACP Image Award Finalist and winner of the 2023 Locus Award.

  Sheree Renée Thomas is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, and is the associate editor of Obsidian, founded in 1975. Widely anthologized, Thomas’ work appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (1945–2010), edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer; Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki; Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, vol. 2, edited by Paula Guran; and Marvel’s Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, edited by Jesse J. Holland. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and other publications. She is a collaborator with Janelle Monáe on the artist’s fiction collection, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, a New York Times bestseller. A former New Yorker, she lives in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid.

• Nikki Giovanni is one of America’s foremost poets. Over the course of a long career, Giovanni has published numerous collections of poetry—from her first self-published volume Black Feeling Black Talk (1968) to New York Times bestseller Bicycles: Love Poems (2009)—several works of nonfiction and children’s literature, and multiple recordings, including the Emmy-award nominated The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2004). Her most recent publications include Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013), Standing in the Need of Prayer (2020), and, as editor, The 100 Best African American Poems (2010). A frequent lecturer and reader, Giovanni has taught at Rutgers University, Ohio State University, and Virginia Tech, where she is a University Distinguished Professor.

• A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include The Reformatory (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, World Fantasy Award, and a New York Times Notable Book), The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.

  She was an executive producer on Shudder’s groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, recently co-directed a short film horror film, “The Keeper.” They also wrote “A Small Town” for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s “The Twilight Zone,” and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire.

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