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Eboni J. Dunbar (She/her) is a queer, black woman who writes queer and black speculative fiction. She lives in Northern California with her wife. She received her BA from Macalester College in English and her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Eboni is a VONA Alum, and the former managing editor for the Hugo Award-Winning FIYAH Literary Magazine. She is also the winner of the Lambda Literary 2023 Randall Kenan Prize for Black LGBTQ Fiction and the IGNYTE Award 2024 for outstanding novelette for "Spell for Grief and Longing" (FIYAH, issue 26).

Her work can be found in Stellium Literary Magazine, FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Drabblecast, Anathema: Spec from the margins, Nightlight Podcast and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. ...more

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	Stone and Steel 3.51 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FIYAH Literary Magazine: Year Two by Justina Ireland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Troy L. Wiggins (Editor), DaVaun Sanders (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Issue #26, Spring 2023 by DaVaun Sanders (Goodreads Author) (Editor), M.H. Ayinde (Goodreads Author), S.J. Powell 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Translator 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #374 by Scott H. Andrews (Editor), Eboni J. Dunbar (Goodreads Author), Jae Steinbacher 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Issue #7, Summer 2018: Music by Justina Ireland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Troy L. Wiggins (Editor), Lisa Allen-Agostini liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
― John Updike

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“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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