Nicole D. Sconiers is the author of Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage, a speculative fiction short-story collection that has been taught at colleges and universities around the country.

Her short story “Kim” was published in the anthology Sycorax’s Daughters, which was a Bram Stoker Award finalist. Ms. Sconiers was a guest columnist for Nightmare magazine’s The H-Word. Her short story “The Eye of Heaven” appeared in the anthology Black from the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing, published by BLF Press, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.

Her short stories “How to Become an Ancestor” and “70 Decibels” will appear summer 2021 in Lightspeed and Speculative City magazines. Her short story “Epiphany” will appear in the horror anthology December Tales in September 2021.

Ms. Sconiers currently resides in Pennsylvania, where she is working on a collection of horror stories and a horror podcast.