Tamika is a writer, producer, and journalist. She is author of Unshod, Cackling, and Naked (Unnerving Books), which is the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards WINNER for Horror, and 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 Foreword INDIES Award-winning anthology, Graffiti. Her work has appeared in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Her long fiction tale, “Bridget Has Disappeared,” is in translation at Independent Legions’ Italian-language Molotov Magazine, her story, “The Sand Ate Her,” is available in audio format at the Creepy Podcast, and her tale, “The God Bot,” is forthcoming in Penumbric.
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