Tananarive Priscilla Due (born January 5, 1966) is an American author and educator. She won the American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood (2001) and has received the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award for her novel The Reformatory (2023). She is also recognized as a film historian with expertise in Black horror. Tananarive Due teaches a course at UCLA titled "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic", focusing on Jordan Peele's film Get Out. She and her husband, Steven Barnes, have co-written the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper and co-host a podcast called "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!". A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for over 20 years, her works include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. Together with her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, she co-authored Freedom in the Family.