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Tlotlo Tsamaase is a Motswana speculative fiction writer and poet whose stories and poems have been nominated for or won numerous awards. She is currently represented by Naomi Davis of BookEnds Literary Agency.

Her fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 1, Futuri uniti d'Africa, Terraform, Strange Horizons, Africanfuturism: An Anthology, and more.

Awards and nominations

Selected bibliography

Fiction — short stories

• "Who Will Clean Our Spirits When We Are Gone?", The Dark Magazine
• "The River of Night", The Dark Magazine
• "Eclipse Our Sins", Clarkesworld Magazine
• "Behind Our Irises", in Wole Talabi, editor, Africanfuturism: An Anthology (2020)
• "The River of Night" in Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, editor, The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)
• "Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition)", in Sheree Renée Thomas, Zelda Knight, and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, editor, Africa Risen (2022)
• "Dreamports" in Apex Magazine (2022)

Fiction — novels and novellas

• The Silence of the Wilting Skin (2020)
• Womb City (2024)

References

1. "New Client Alert". BookEnds Literary Agency. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
2. "Winners of the Bessie Head Literature Awards from 2007 through 2011".
3. "Tlotlo Tsamaase".
4. "Tlotlo Tsamaase".
5. Jim Provenzano, "Lambda Literary Awards 2021 finalists announced". Bay Area Reporter, March 15, 2021.
6. "2021 Nommo Awards Shortlist".
7. "The Nommo Awards, for African Speculative Fiction, Announces 2021 Winners".
8. "2022 Nommo Awards Shortlist".

External links

• Official website

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