StokerCon 2025

Tamika is author of THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS (Erewhon/Kensington, 2026) & Next Generation Indie Book Awards Horror WINNER, UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED (Unnerving Books), which Publishers Weekly calls “powerful,” “unsettling,” and “terrifying.” She is also the author of SALAMANDER JUSTICE (Madness Heart Press), and fiction editor for Foreword INDIES Award-winning anthology, GRAFFITI. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Interzone, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, Penumbric, in translation at Molotov Magazine, and in audio form at the Creepy Podcast, among others. 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, where she hosts her own blog and newsletter, TAMIKA TALKS TERROR. She can be found online at tamikathompson.com.