P. Djèlí Clark

Dexter Gabriel was born in New York City in 1971, but spent most of his early years living in his parents' original home of Trinidad and Tobago. In 2011, Gabriel began publishing short stories variously as P. Djèlí Clark, Djèlí A. Clark, Phenderson Djèlí Clark, and A. Phenderson Clark. Phenderson was his grandfather's name, while Clark was his mother's maiden name; Djèlí refers to West African storytellers, known in French as griots. He chose to use a pen name in order to separate his academic and literary work. In 2016, Clark sold his first major work, a novelette titled "A Dead Djinn in Cairo", to Tor.com. He has been announced as Guest of Honour at the 2027 Eastercon and was a Guest of Honor at Readercon 2025. ==Awards==

Dead Djinn Universe • • • • For young readers ; ''Abeni's Song'' • • • Standalone novellas • • • Other works • "The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington". Fireside Fiction. February 2018 • ==As Dexter Gabriel==

• Jubilee’s Experiment: The British West Indies and American Abolitionism. Cambridge University Press, April 2023. ==References==