Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning author, poet, and editor whose work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, and Mississippi Delta conjure. She is the author of the collections Mojorhythm (Third Man Books, 2025), Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, 2020), Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press, 2016), and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems (Aqueduct Press, 2011). Thomas is also the author of the novel Marvel's Black Panther: Panther's Rage (Titan Books, 2022). She contributed to Marvel’s Legends comic book series with her debut comic, "The World Is Not Ready" featuring the Black Panther and Storm, and collaborated with artist Janelle Monáe on the novelette “Timebox Altar(ed),” in the New York Times bestselling collection, The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer (Harper Voyager, 2022). Thomas is recognized for her significant contributions to the genre. She is a three-time World Fantasy Award winner for the groundbreaking anthologies Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Warner Books, 2000 & 2004) and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Tordotcom Publishing, 2022), and was the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois’s science fiction short stories to a new generation of readers. She has also received the Octavia E. Butler Award, the Ignyte Ember Award, and the Locus Award, and is a two-time Hugo Award Finalist. Her work is featured in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (1945-2010), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage Books, 2020), and other "Year's Best" volumes.

In addition to her writing, Thomas has been honored with fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Bread Loaf Environmental, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and ArtsMemphis. She is also a Board Member for Gold SF, the science fiction imprint of Goldsmiths, University of London. She has lectured and taught creative writing workshops as an Instructor and as a Writer-in-Residence around the world, including at Clarion West (she is a 1999 graduate), Odyssey, Smith College, the Pine Manor MFA program, Under the Volcano, Stanford, SUNY Binghamton, the University of Paris-Cité, and in locations in the U.K., Spain, Italy, Germany, and Senegal. She also served as a co-curator for the Red Spring: Curating the End of the World (2021) exhibition, an online Google Arts & Culture project for BSAM: The Black Speculative Arts Movement & Bill T. Jones's NY Live Arts, and for Carnegie Hall's historic 2022 citywide Afrofuturism Festival. She is the Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF), founded in 1949, and the Associate Editor of the historic Black arts literary journal, Obsidian, founded in 1975. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee, between a mighty river and a pyramid.