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Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Arley Sorg
Sheree Renée Thomas was born in Memphis, TN. The eldest child of an air force vet, she grew up on various military bases. She eventually moved to New York, where she lived for twenty years before returning to live in Memphis. She worked at genre bookstore Forbidden Planet, as well as working full-time in publishing while freelancing on the side, doing everything from writing jacket copy to proofreading and copyediting to editing.
In 2000, Time Warner published Thomas’ groundbreaking anthology
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora under its Aspect imprint, followed by 2004’s
Clive Barker on Crafting Horror: Write Without Boundaries [Exclusive]
On the latest episode of Post Mortem with Mick Garris, the Hellraiser writer-director Clive Barker reveals how to craft horror without boundaries. By Max Weinstein
Clive Barker has long been a master at immersing audiences in the wildly fantastical worlds he creates. But he insists that he pulls this off not by immersing himself in the writing process, but by taking himself out of it.
On the
Hellraiser writer-director says that he removes himself from the craftsmanship of his work by handwriting never typing all of his stories. “It’s a form of madness,” he jokes, and Garris teases him about the yellow pads he’s seen him scribble on when the two have worked together. But as with the best forms of madness, there’s a method to it, too.
Artist Rowena Morrill, 76, died February 11, 2021 following years of poor health. Morrill was one of the most prominent artists in the field, with an active career that spanned decades. Some of her work has been collected in Hugo Award finalist
The Fantastic Art of Rowena (1983) and
The Art of Rowena (2000).
Born September 14, 1944, Morrill graduated from the University of Delaware in 1971 with an art degree and attended the Tyler School of Arts MFA program (though she left before completing the degree). She moved to New York, where she worked in advertising. She soon began her career as a cover artist, starting in romance, and did her first genre cover for