Sumiko Saulson

Sumiko Saulson is an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror. Ze is the editor of the anthologies and collections Black Magic Women, Scry of Lust, Black Celebration, and Wickedly Abled. Ze is the winner of the 2016 HWA StokerCon Scholarship from Hell, 2017 BCC Voice Reframing the Other contest, 2017 Mixy Award, and the 2018 AWW Afrosurrealist Writer Award, and is a 2020 HWA Diversity Grant recipient. Ze has an AA in English from Berkeley City College and writes a column called 'Writing While Black' for the San Francisco BayView, a national Black newspaper. Ze is the host of the SOMA Leather and LGBT Cultural District’s Erotic Storytelling Hour and Social Media Manager at the Horror Writers Association.