Una voz líder en la ficción especulativa negra, TANANARIVE DUE ha ganado un American Book Award, un NAACP Image Award y un British Fantasy Award. Sus libros incluyen The Reformatory: A Novel, ganadora del Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Chautauqua Prize, Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, y nombrada The New York Times Notable Book; The Wishing Pool and Other Stories; Ghost Summer: Stories; My Soul to Take: A Novel; y The Good House: A Novel. Ella y su difunta madre, Patricia Stephens Due, coescribieron Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.