Who is Tiara Janté?
Tiara Janté is a Locus Award-winning, Hugo-nominated writer whose speculative fiction and non-fiction center Black spiritual traditions, ancestral memory, and liberated futures.
She writes stories that challenge systems, hold space for healing, and honor the sacred in everyday life.
She coined 'Hoodoofuturism', a genre that blends ancestral practices with speculative storytelling, offering narratives shaped by transformation, resistance, and connection. Her work weaves truth and imagination, often exploring the intersection of ritual, identity, and power.
Tiara is the Founder of CNTRD Tech and The CNTRD Movement, a digital ecosystem committed to dismantling algorithmic bias and reclaiming space for Black and marginalized communities. Her academic research focuses on decolonizing digital spaces and exploring how Afrofuturism critiques the broken promises of technological progress while offering visionary alternatives.
With over a decade of experience in strategic communications, Tiara helps mission-driven brands shape narratives rooted in equity, cultural integrity, and collective impact.
She holds a B.A. in English from Muhlenberg College and is a M.A. in Professional and Digital Media Writing candidate at East Stroudsburg University.
Based in the Atlanta metro area, Tiara is a mother, a life partner, a cultural strategist, and a student of spirit. Her children keep her grounded in legacy and her writing is a living offering—to her people, to her lineage, and to those creating new worlds from the ones we were never meant to survive.
She believes the future isn’t something to wait for. It’s something we’re building now, through words that inspire action.
Hoodoofuturist Tales of the Black Spectacular
Zone Eleven & Other Dope Tales
Across the fault lines of time and spirit, Zone Eleven pulses—an unseen current where magick and memory refuse to die. Within its reach, formidable femmes fight to remake the world before it consumes them.
Karyn, the cursed designer, stitching her way through blood-bound secrets.
Aja, the Rootworker, planting new futures in the ashes of the old world.
Regina, the scientist, unearthing the truth the government buried.
And Simone, the conjurer vigilante, meting out justice where systems decay.
Each story is bound to the next by the same ancestral thread—ancient, relentless, and alive.
In The Reconjured Edition, Tiara Janté delivers a searing vision of speculative fiction rooted in the sacred and the real—where survival is spellwork, and remembrance is rebellion.
Coming soon. Preorder now and step inside the zone.
APPEARANCES
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Join us at the Black Coffee Company, Atlanta, GA on January 25, 2025, from 12pm to 3:00pm as we celebrate the release of the Spacefunk! Anthology! We'll have a limited number of books available, and some of our amazing authors will be there to sign their stories. We'll also have a few giveaways provided by our gracious sponsors. So mark your calendar and join us for the Black Speculative Event of 2025. Space is the Place!
Black Writers Weekend 2024
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Join me for an elightening conversation during the "Beyond Boundaries: Afrofuturism, Identity, and Imagination” panel powered by Kindle Direct Publishing during Black Writers Weekend on August 2nd! We'll be discussing how Black creators are shaping the future through innovative storytelling and powerful identities.
Multiverse Convention 2024
Spacefunk! Book Release Party
Multiverse Convention 2024
I'll be a guest at the 2024 Multiverse Convention October 18-20 in Atlanta. What is the Multiverse Convention? We’re a community of fans who love to get together with our friends and geek out over the things we love. We love great stories: stories of the supernatural, the fantastic, the futuristic, the heroic and weird and wonderful. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics, gaming, fantastical art, even science, crafting, and cooking - great stories come in all forms, and at Multiverse, we celebrate them all