Fiction
Nana Ekua Brew Hammond, Powered Necklace
Lorene Cary, If Sons, Then Heirs
Maryse Conde, Story of the Cannibal Woman, Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat & Victoire
**Tananarive Due, My Soul to Take, Joplin’s Ghost, The Good House with Steven Barnes, Devil’s Wake series.
Marcus Guillory, Red Now n Laters
Rashad Harrison, The Abduction of Smith and Smith, Our Man in the Dark
Amy Hill Hearth, Miss Dreamsville and the Collier Country Literary Society
Shannon Holmes, Bad Girlz
Walter Mosley, Five Easy Pieces
Jewell P. Rhodes
Gillian Royes, The Shad Series
Vickie Stringer, the Red series
Lalita Tademy, Citizens Creek
Wanjiku wa Ngugi, The Fall of Saints
*Blair Underwood, Casanegra Tennyson Hardwick series with Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due
Morowa Yejide, Time of the Locust
Carl Hancock Rux, Asphalt
Maria Helena Viramontes, Their Dogs Came with Them
Zane, The Other Side of the Pillow