Who is Tiara Janté?
Tiara Janté is a Hugo-nominated, Locus Award–winning writer who blends sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and essay, with the truth-telling of lived experience.
Her work centers Black spiritual traditions, ancestral memory, and the kind of freedom that starts from the inside out.
She coined the genre Hoodoofuturism because there wasn’t a name for the kind of stories she tells—where Ancestral wisdom and speculative vision live side by side. Her work sits at the intersection of memory, and imagination; honoring what we carry, calling back what was stolen, and writing toward liberation that doesn’t ask permission.
Tiara is the author of Zone Eleven & Other Dope Tales, a speculative short story collection released in a limited run in 2023. Her current work-in-progress is a YA sci-fantasy novel set in a fractured timeline where tech and magic collide, and memory is the key to survival.
Beyond the page, Tiara is the Founder of The CNTRD Movement—a radical digital ecosystem designed to dismantle algorithmic bias and reimagine digital futures through a Black liberation lens. She holds a B.A. in English from Muhlenberg College and is completing an M.A. in Professional and Digital Media Writing at East Stroudsburg University.
As a literary publicist and cultural strategist with over a decade of experience, Tiara has helped shape the public narratives of authors, organizers, and cultural creators committed to equity and transformation.
She is a former staff writer for BlackSci-Fi.com and is a seasoned ghostwriter; part of the Gotham Ghostwriters Network.
Based in the Atlanta metro area, Tiara is a mother, a partner, and a student of spirit. Her writing is a living offering to her Ancestors, her children, and to those who dare to write toward liberation.
APPEARANCES
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Join us at the Black Coffee Company, Atlanta, GA on January 25, 2025, from 12pm to 3:00pm as we celebrate the release of the Spacefunk! Anthology! We'll have a limited number of books available, and some of our amazing authors will be there to sign their stories. We'll also have a few giveaways provided by our gracious sponsors. So mark your calendar and join us for the Black Speculative Event of 2025. Space is the Place!
Black Writers Weekend 2024
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Join me for an elightening conversation during the "Beyond Boundaries: Afrofuturism, Identity, and Imagination” panel powered by Kindle Direct Publishing during Black Writers Weekend on August 2nd! We'll be discussing how Black creators are shaping the future through innovative storytelling and powerful identities.
Multiverse Convention 2024
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Multiverse Convention 2024
I'll be a guest at the 2024 Multiverse Convention October 18-20 in Atlanta. What is the Multiverse Convention? We’re a community of fans who love to get together with our friends and geek out over the things we love. We love great stories: stories of the supernatural, the fantastic, the futuristic, the heroic and weird and wonderful. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics, gaming, fantastical art, even science, crafting, and cooking - great stories come in all forms, and at Multiverse, we celebrate them all