Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh is an author and critical essayist whose work spans genres. Her essays appear in Dead Pretty: Beauty in the Horror Genre (Nottingham Horror Collective, September 2026) and Echoes of the Earth: Black Voices Reclaiming Ecology and Justice (Cassava Republic Press, forthcoming), among fifteen other literary journal publications across 2025 and 2026. Her BIPOC-led, queer horror romcom, My Roommate Is Trying To Kill Me, is forthcoming in October 2026. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Instagram & Threads: @mayagawoniiwrites. Web: www.mayagawonii.com.