Tsamaase, Tlotlo
Entry updated 22 January 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1989- ) Motswana author, who began publishing short fiction with "Eco-Humans" in The Fog Horn for March 2014, and made her first professional genre sale with "Murders Fell From Our Wombs" in Apex Magazine for April 2018. A string of excellent shorts quietly followed, in genre publications such as Clarkesworld, The Dark and Prisms (for PS Publishing see Peter Crowther). Tsamaase's concerns with race (see Race in SF) and gender are rendered in hauntingly lyrical prose. "Virtual Snapshots" (18 February 2016 Terraform) offers a Near-Future look at Botswana. Of much interest is her first stand-alone publication, The Silence of the Wilting Skin (2020), a tale set in an unnamed African city bisected by railway tracks traversed by the dead. It can be read as fable or allegory, but equally as a work of surrealist fantasy of considerable power. Further work by Tsamaase is awaited eagerly. [LTi]
Tlotlo Tsamaase
born Botswana: 29 October 1989
works
- The Silence of the Wilting Skin (Worcester, Massachusetts: Pink Narcissus Press, 2020) [chap: pb/Duncan Eagleson]
- Womb City (New York: Erewhon Books, 2024) [hb/]
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