Tamika is a writer, producer, and journalist. She is author of Unshod, Cackling, and Naked (Unnerving Books), which Publishers Weekly calls “powerful,” “unsettling,” and “terrifying,” as well as author of Salamander Justice (Madness Heart Press). She is co-creator of the artist collective POC United and fiction editor for the group’s award-winning anthology, Graffiti. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Chicago Review of Books, among others. Her long fiction tale, “Bridget Has Disappeared,” is forthcoming in translation at Independent Legions’ Italian-language Molotov Magazine, and her story, “The Sand Ate Her,” is forthcoming from the Creepy Podcast.
She has attended the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop and the Community of Writers. She also has producing credits at Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, as well as at NBC and ABC News. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University and a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Contact
tamika [dot] thompson [at] gmail [dot] com
(310) 571-8452