Bayana A. Davis

Bayana A. Davis is co-host of #WizardTeam, a podcast that discusses and highlights Black fantasy stories. She co-founded Black Nerds Create, a collective that provided content through the lens of critical and creative fandom in order to advocate for meaningful representation for Black creators. She has a B.A. in English-Creative Writing from Mills College, was a finalist in the Voyage First Chapters Contest, and was selected for the DVmentor program where she was mentored by Gabi Burton, author of Sing Me to Sleep and Drown Me with Dreams (Bloomsbury YA). She is a fierce advocate of critical fandom and increased representation of Black women in publishing and media. She hopes her writing will add to the increasing diversity of stories creating space and representation for Black folks, especially in science fiction and fantasy.