Cedrick May is a Pushcart Prize nominated author of horror and other speculative fictions that center historically marginalized peoples within those genres. He is a Professor of English and Digital Arts at The University of Texas at Arlington and has written scholarly books and essays on African-American literature, as well as tales of the weird and supernatural.
Bibliography
Short Fiction
- “A Recipe for Dying” (Forthcoming in Necroyummycon: A Food Blog Horror Anthology, forthcoming)
- “Molasses” (The Skull & Laurel, Issue #2, January 2025)
- “The Alamo” (The Tentaculum and The Drabblecast, August & November 2023)
- “Othello–An American Tragedy” (Violent Delights & Midsummer Dreams: A Gothic Anthology of Shakespeare Retellings)
- “Bachelard Forgets the Kitchen” (Bourbon Penn, August 2023)
- “Imposter Syndrome” (Coffin Bell Journal, January 2023) (Pushcart Prize Nominee)
- “The Fifth Stage of Grief” (Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, January 2023)
- “Ambush and Blood for a Hoodoo Cowboy” (Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Volume 7, 2022)
- “Do Not Cry For Me, for I Am Saved” (Aphelion, 2021)
Nonfiction Books
- The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon (The University of Tennessee Press, 2017)
- Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835 (University of Georgia Press, 2008)
Interviews
- “Road Kill is Back and Better Than Ever” (HoustonPress)
- “Cleburne Writer Cedrick May Taps Lone Star Inspiration in Books” (Cleburne Times Review)