The Dark Fantastic

Rochelle Spencer is the author of AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor, with Jina Ortiz, of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). This fall, she is teaching AfroSurrealism at Sarah Lawrence College and online at Fisk University.

Rochelle Spencer

A New Hope: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s Vision for “The Dark Fantastic”

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Diversity Is Magic: A Roundtable on Children’s Literature and Speculative Fiction

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

Rochelle Spencer is the author of AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor, with Jina Ortiz, of All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). This fall, she is teaching AfroSurrealism at Sarah Lawrence College and online at Fisk University.