hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.
For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.
If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - speculative fiction
Marguerite Abouet - graphic novels
Elizabeth Acevedo - fiction, poetry
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - fiction
Tomi Adeyemi - young adult fantasy
K Ancrum - speculative contemporary young adult
Lily Anderson - fiction
Ashley Antoinette - fiction
Ama Ata Aidoo - poetry, fiction, plays
Kemi Ashing Giwa - speculative fiction
Kalynn Bayron - young adult, fantasy
Malorie Blackman - childrens' books, young adult
Natasha Bowen - fantasy
Gwendolyn Brooks - poetry
Natasha Brown - fiction
NoViolet Bulawayo - fiction
Constance Burris - speculative fiction
CL Clark - fantasy, speculative fiction
Wahida Clark - urban fiction
Lucille Clifton - poetry, fiction
Alyssa Cole - romance, thrillers, graphic novels
Kamilah Cole - fiction
Claire Coleman - fiction, essays, poetry
Maryse Condé - fiction, non-fiction, plays
Emma Dabiri - non-fiction
Edwidge Danticat - fiction
Angela Davis - philosophy
Carolina Maria De Jesus - memoir
Hayley Dennings - fiction
Tracy Deonn - fiction
Nicky Drayden - speculative fiction
Tananarive Due - horror, comics
Camille Dungy - memoir, poetry
Esi Edugyan - fiction
Zetta Elliot - childrens' books, teen fiction, adult fiction
Bernardine Evaristo - fiction
Conceição Evaristo - fiction, non-fiction
Eve Ewing - poetry, fiction, non-fiction, comics
Radna Fabias - poetry
Namina Forna - young adult fantasy
Latoya Ruby Frazier - non-fiction
Stella Gaitano - fiction
Camryn Garrett - fiction, middle grade
Roxane Gay - fiction, non-fiction, comics
Nicole Glover - fantasy, speculative fiction
Nikki Giovanni - poetry, essays
Jewelle Gomez - fiction, plays
Annette Gordon-Reed - non-fiction (history)
Pumla Dineo Gqola - non-fiction
Deanna Grey - romance
Yaa Gyasi - fiction
Andrea Hairston - fiction
Lorraine Hansberry - plays
Saidiya Hartman - non-fiction, theory
Alexis Henderson - dark speculative fiction
Adriana Herrera - romance
Talia Hibbert - romance
bell hooks - fiction, non-fiction, poetry
Pauline Hopkins - fiction, non-fiction, plays
Nalo Hopkinson - speculative fiction
Jordan Ifueko - comics, fantasy, young adult
Samantha Irby - non-fiction
Justina Ireland - science fiction, fantasy, comics
Meka James - contemporary and erotic romance
Tiffany D Jackson - young adult
Beverly Jenkins - romance
Alaya Dawn Johnson - speculative fiction
Micaiah Johnson - science fiction
Mariame Kaba - non-fiction
Petals Kalulé - fiction, poetry [Petals is noted as using she/they, I'm not 100% sure of their gender identity and past a certain point it feels weird to investigate too much]
Mikki Kendall - fiction, non-fiction
Jamaica Kincaid - fiction, non-fiction
Zaire Krieger - poetry
Nella Larsen - fiction
Karmen Lee - romance
Kirsten R. Lee - young adult
Margot Lee Shetterly - non-fiction
Audre Lourde - poetry, non-fiction
And here's part two:
Terry Macmillen - fiction
Robin Maynard - non-fiction
Amber Mcbride - poetry, young adult
Janet Mock - non-fiction, screenwriting
Brittney Moris - comics, young adult, fantasy
Bethany C Morrow - fiction, science fiction, young adult
Leila Mottley - fiction, poetry
Beatriz Nascimento - non-fiction
Leticia Nascimento - I think non-fiction primarily
Gloria Naylor - fiction
Zora Neale Hurston - fiction, non-fiction
Grace Nichols - poetry
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu - fiction
Trifonia Melibea Obono - fiction
Shirlene Obuobi - comics, fiction
Nnendi Okorafor - science fiction
Melatu Uche Okorie - fiction
Chinelo Okparanta - fiction
Helen Oyeyemi - fiction
Nell Painter - non-fiction
Morgan Parker - poetry, non-fiction
Nikki Payne - romance
Koleka Putuma - plays, poetry
Claudia Rankine - poetry, plays, non-fiction
Sarah Raughley - young adult
Dia Reeves - fantasy, horror, science fiction
Kiley Reid - fiction
Stacy Reid - romance
Djamila Ribero - philosophy
Legacy Russell - fiction, non-fiction, poetry
Layla F. Saad - non-fiction
Sofia Samatar - fiction, non-fiction
Liselle Sambury - fantasy
Analeigh Sbrana - romance, fantasy
Namwali Serpell - fiction
Ntozake Shange - plays, poetry
Christina Sharpe - non-fiction
Nisi Shawl - fiction, alternate history
Jamison Shea - dark fantasy/horror
Patricia Smith - poet
Tracy K Smith - poet
Zadie Smith - fiction
Sister Souljah - fiction
Kiki Swinson - fiction
Mildred D Taylor - young adult/children's lit
Katerina Teaiwa - non-fiction
Teresia Teaiwa - poetry
Angie Thomas - young adult, middle grade
Leah Thomas - non-fiction
Spike Trotman - comics
Tloto Tsamaase - science fiction
Nikki Turner - urban fiction
Maxine Tynes - poetry
Ngozi Ukazu - comics
Shola von Reinhold - fiction
Wanjikũ wa Ngũgĩ - fiction
Jasmine Walls - graphic novels
Alice Walker - fiction, non-fiction, poetry
Jesmyn Ward - fiction
Monica West - fiction
Phyllis Wheatley-Peters - poetry
Rita Williams-Garcia - young adult, middle grade
Stephanie Williams - comics, non-fiction
Tia Williams - fiction, romance
Raquel Willis - non-fiction
Jamila Woods - poetry
Jacqueline Woodson - childrens' books, young adult, fiction, poetry
Alexis Wright - fiction, non-fiction
Zane - erotic fiction
Fiona Zedde - fiction
Attica Locke - Mystery/Thriller Fiction
Oyinkan Braithwaite - Fiction
Isabel Wilkerson - Non-fiction



















