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Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh is an author and critical essayist whose work spans genres.
She was recently named first runner-up for the Red Hen Press Quill Prose Award for HER BITE, an unreleased Black Southern gothic sapphic vampire novella.
Her essays appear in Dead Pretty: Beauty in the Horror Genre (Nottingham Horror Collective, September 2026) and Echoes of the Earth: Black Voices Reclaiming Ecology and Justice (Cassava Republic Press, forthcoming), among fifteen other literary journal publications across 2025 and 2026.
Her BIPOC-led, queer horror romcom, My Roommate Is Trying To Kill Me, is forthcoming October 13, 2026 with advance praise from New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas.
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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