Tananarive Due

Tananarive Due (pronounced tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an NAACP Image Award winner and an American Book Award-winning author of nine books, ranging from supernatural thrillers to a mystery to a civil rights memoir.

Due has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and an master's in English literature from the University of Leeds, England, where she specialized in Nigerian literature as a Rotary Foundation Scholar.

Due taught creative writing in the MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles, the Hurston-Wright Foundation's Writers' Week, the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, and the summer Imagination conference at Cleveland State University. She is a former feature writer and columnist for The Miami Herald.