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, with her short fiction featured in Hexagon SF Magazine, Myriad and the 6th issue of 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 the genesis of a vast afrocosmic world she created. Her stories exist in the liminal space between sci-fi 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