Antoinette Van Sluytman is an afrolatina scholar, science-fantasy writer, poet, instructor, film & media coordinator, martial artist, and illustrator based in California. Her illustrations have been showcased in many exhibitions and received awards from esteemed organizations such as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and Scholastic Art & Writing Alliance. Her afrocosmic short fiction is featured in the Hugo award winning FIYAH Literary Magazine, Hexagon SF Magazine, and Inner Worlds Magazine.
Antoinette's work honors the legacy of pre-colonial spirituality and matriarchal antiquity that is bridged across all of her stories and concept art, each evolved from a vast afrocosmic world. Her stories engage themes of slipstream surrealism and exists in the liminal space between sci-fi, literary fiction, and fantasy as a reimagination of 'advanced' societies without artificial intelligence. She lectures on the literary circuit about decolonizing fiction and is the co-founder of the upcoming multimedia studio, Broken Chalice Studios.
Antoinette is represented by Julie Crisp of JCLA.
Contact: julieacrisp@gmail.com