Chesya Burke

Chesya Burke is an American editor, educator and author of comic books and speculative fiction, most notably in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. She has published over a hundred short stories, essays, and articles in magazines and anthologies such as Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, and Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany. Her short story collection Let's Play White was published in 2011 while her debut novel, The Strange Crimes of Little Africa, was released in late 2015. Nikki Giovanni has compared Burke's fiction to that of Octavia Butler and Toni Morrison.