Tamika Thompson is author of The Curse of Hester Gardens (Erewhon/Kensington 2026). A former journalist and producer, she is also author of Salamander Justice (Madness Heart Press), and Unshod,Cackling, and Naked (Unnerving Books), which is the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards WINNER for Horror, and which Publishers Weekly calls “powerful,” “unsettling,” and “terrifying.” Her work has appeared in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Her long fiction tale, “Bridget Has Disappeared,” was translated to Italian for Independent Legions’ Molotov Magazine. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University and a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she hosts her own blog and newsletter, Tamika Talks Terror.
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