Novels •
Mindscape (
Aqueduct Press, 2006) •
Redwood and Wildfire (
Aqueduct Press, February 2011) •
Impolitic! (Aqueduct Press, 2012) •
Lonely Stardust (
Aqueduct Press, 2014) •
Will Do Magic for Small Change (
Aqueduct Press, 2016) •
Master of Poisons (
Tor Books, 2020) •
Archangels of Funk (Tor Books, 2024) • Forthcoming:
The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays (
Macmillan Publishers, May 2026)
Short fiction • "Griots of the Galaxy" in Hopkinson, N. and Uppinder, M., eds.,
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004'' • "Excerpt from
Mindscape", in Thomas, S.R., ed.,
Dark Matter: Reading The Bones: Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, Grand Central Publishing, 2004. • "Saltwater Road" in
Lightspeed, Issue 62, July 2015
Articles and essays • "'I Wanna Be Great!': How to Rescue the Spirit in the Wasteland of Fame" in Donkin, E. and Clement, S., ed.,
Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as if Gender and Race Matter, University of Michigan Press, 1993. • "Driving Mr. Lenny: Notes on Race and Gender as a Transport to Another Reality, Another Dimension" in
The International Review of Science Fiction, 2004 • “Octavia Butler–Praise Song to a Prophetic Artist” in Larbalestier, J., ed.,
Daughters of the Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Wesleyan University Press, 2006 • "King Kong" in Duchamp, L. T., ed.,
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 1, Aqueduct Press, 2007 • "Different and Equal Together: SF Satire in
District 9" in
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2011. • "Guest of Honor 2012 Speech" in Vanderhooft, J., ed.,
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol 7., Aqueduct Press, 2013. • "Disappearing Natives: The Colonized Body is Monstrous" in
Extrapolation, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2013. • "Dismantling the Echo Chamber: On Africa SF" in
Los Angeles Review of Books, 16 January 2014. • "Ghost Dances on Silver Screens: Pumzi and Older than America" in
Extrapolation, Vol. 57, No. 1-2, 2016. • "It’s Our Time: Women of Wakanda",
Los Angeles Times, 8 September 2018.
Plays •
On Display - Do Not Touch (1977) •
The Black Women’s Survival Kit (1988–1989)
Collections •
Impolitic! with Notkin, D., Aqueduct Press, 2012 •
Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays, Aqueduct Press, 2014 ==Awards==