Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New Wave Trajectory, Ohio State University Press, 2008 "Lord of the Monsters—Minstrelsy Redux: King Kong, Hip Hop, and the Brutal Black Buck" in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts "Romance of the Robot: From RUR & Metropolis to WALL-E" in Kelso, S., ed., The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 4, Aqueduct Press, 2010. "Stories Are More Important than Facts: Imagination as Resistance in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth" in Duchamp, L. T., ed., Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles, Aqueduct Press, 2010. "Heretical Connectedness: An Appreciative Look at Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis" in Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol. 1., No. 4, October 2011. "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. "What Art Does: 'When the World Wounds' by Kiini Ibura Salaam" in Los Angeles Review of Books, 25 March 2017. "It’s Our Time: Women of Wakanda", Los Angeles Times, 8 September 2018. Plays On Display - Do Not Touch (1977) Signs of Life (1987) The Black Women’s Survival Kit (1988-1989) It's Not Too Late (1994), with Pan Morigan Dancing With Chaos (1995) Strange Attractors (1996, 1997) Lonely Stardust (1998) Hummingbird Flying Backward (2000) Soul Repairs (2002) Archangels of Funk (2003-2005) Dispatches (2008-2009) Thunderbird at the Next World Theatre (2014) Collections Impolitic! with Notkin, D., Aqueduct Press, 2012 Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays, Aqueduct Press, 2014 Awards 2011 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for Redwood and Wildfire International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award for distinguished contributions to the scholarship and criticism of the fantastic, 2011 2006 Carl Brandon Parallax Award for Mindscape, 2010 Launch Pad—Fellow at NASA-funded Writer’s Workshop, August 2008 Guest of Honor, Diversicon Science Fiction Convention, Minneapolis, MN, August 2007 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Finalist for Mindscape, 2006 Philip K. Dick Award Finalist for Mindscape, 2007 Older Writers Grant, Speculative Literature Foundation for Exploding in Slow Motion excerpt, 2004. NEA Grant to Playwrights, a Ford Foundation