Rivers Solomon is a writer and lecturer. Their home is in the realm of the imaginary, where Blackness, queerness, and disability become sites of insurgency.
In addition to appearing on the Stonewall Honor List and winning a Firecracker Award, Solomon’s debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, was a finalist for a Lambda, a Hurston/Wright, and a Locus Award, among others. Solomon’s second book, the novella The Deep, won the 2020 Lambda Award and was shortlisted for a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Hugo Award. Emerging out of a collaboration with experimental hip-hop group clipping, fronted by Daveed Diggs, The Deep investigates Toni Morrison’s incantation in the novel Beloved: “this is not a story to pass on.” Solomon’s third novel, Sorrowland, the story of a young woman’s godlike metamorphosis, won the Stonewall and Otherwise Awards and was shortlisted for an Ignyte Award. Model Home, Solomon’s latest novel, was released to critical acclaim.
Solomon also writes essays, poems, and short stories, which can be found in such places as The New York Times, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. Born on Turtle Island, they currently live in London.