Kai Ashante Wilson

KAI ASHANTE WILSON was the 2010 Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion writing workshop in San Diego. He won the Crawford award for best first novel of 2016, and his works have been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. Most of his stories can be read at Tor.com, and the rest at Fantasy-magazine.com or in the anthology Stories for Chip. His novellas The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps and A Taste of Honey are available from all fine e-book purveyors. Kai Ashante Wilson lives in New York City.
Books by this author

In Our Own Worlds
In celebration of Pride, Tor.com Publishing presents four critically acclaimed novellas featuring LGBTQ+ characters.
In these stories you’ll find reflections of queer identity both as it exists in our world and in imagined...

In Our Own Worlds #2
In celebration of Pride, Tor.com Publishing presents four critically acclaimed novellas featuring LGBTQ+ characters.
With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of...

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
One of Wired's Twenty-Five All-Time Favorite Books
Critically acclaimed author Kai Ashante Wilson makes his commercial debut with this striking, wondrous tale of gods and mortals, magic and steel, and life and death...

A Taste of Honey
A Taste of Honey is the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus finalist novella that N. K. Jemisin calls "a love story as painful as it is beautiful and complex". Find out why Wired named it one of the 20 Best...

Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #1
Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #1 is a curated selection of novellas by editor Carl Engle-Laird
This collection includes:
The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang
Runtime by S.B....

Tor.com Publishing's 2017 Hugo Finalist Bundle
Please enjoy this convenient anthology of Tor.com Publishing's 2017 Hugo finalists, including four novellas, two novelettes, and three short stories.
Best Novella
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
The...