Phenderson Djèlí Clark is the award-winning author of the novels Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold, Abeni’s Song, and A Master of Djinn, and the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, The Haunting of Tram Car 015, and The Dead Cat Tail Assassins.

His stories have appeared in online venues such as Apex, Lightspeed, Reactor/Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, and Fireside Fiction. He is also a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine.

A graduate of Texas State University, he currently resides in New England with his wife, daughters, and pet dragon (who suspiciously resembles a Boston Terrier). He periodically discusses issues of speculative fiction, politics, diversity and other issues of the day on his blog: The Disgruntled Haradrim.