Please forward to friends at your own discretion. Wednesday, October 18th, 2017, 7pm at KGB Bar, She is currently on the faculty at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop where she teaches Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing. A pioneer in the field of sociology and the author of texts foundational to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other civil rights actions, Du Bois imagined the apocalyptic disruption of daily life as the background necessary for his depiction of true racial equality.

And once in her life, a long time ago and for three and a half years, she owned and operated a Brooklyn indie bookstore called Indigo Café & Books. Her short stories can be found in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Lightspeed, Uncanny, The Future Fire, APB: Artists against Police Brutality, and other publications. Award, the storySouth Million Writers Award, and has won the Philip K. She has been shortlisted for the Locus Award, the James Tiptree, Jr. Jennifer Marie Brissett is the author of Elysium. He writes a column on the internet for Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. Forthcoming in November are the premier of his stage play Grouped, at the Paragon Science Fiction Play Festival in Chicago and in February a new story collection from Prime, The Promise of Space. It came up under the category of readers who enjoyed Neal Stephenson also bought in the Amazon recommendations list. His most recent publications are the novel Mother G o, an audiobook original from Audible and the career retrospective Masters of Science Fiction: James Patrick Kelly from Centipede Press. I bought Jennifer Marie Brissett ‘s Elysium as a download for my Kindle on a lark early this week. As one of an emerging crew of African Americans working in the imaginative genres, she’s in the vanguard of a literary movement, a gloriously gifted voice raised in the newly swelling choir of speculative griots. James Patrick Kelly has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. Elysium is her debut novel she has also written several short stories. FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett