Endria Richardson

Endria Isa Richardson is a gay black and Malaysian scholar, writer, and lawyer. Endria’s work explores speculative literature as a robust site for the development and popular dissemination of critical philosophies of race, black phenomenology, decolonial thought, and theories of radical black utopianism.
Her essays have appeared most recently in Black Warrior Review, Alpinist, and Bay Nature magazines, and her speculative fiction appears in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, FIYAH, Nightmare, and other fantastic/al magazines. Her work has received notable mentions in Best American Essays and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the runner-up award from the Black Warrior Review nonfiction contest.  Endria is a Tin House Scholar and a graduate of the VONA and Viable Paradise workshops. She is currently working on a PhD in African American Studies.

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System Failure: How Afro-Futurism, Fantasy, and Horror Help Us REIMAGINE Society

May 20, 2022 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Panelists: Maurice Broaddus, James Beamon, Alaya Dawn Johnson and Endria Richardson (moderator)
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This panel will bring together speculative fiction writers who use their craft to illustrate how public systems (the school, prison, and healthcare systems) have failed BIPOC and poor people, and brilliantly reimagine what living in a people-centered society could look like.

Black Speculative Fiction: Urban Fantasy and Beyond

May 13, 2023 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Panelists: Endria Richardson, Sumiko Saulson, Glenn Parris, and Christine Taylor-Butler (moderator)
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From Octavia Butler’s “Kindred” to LA Bank’s Vampire Huntress series, Urban fantasy (fantasy that takes place in modern cities) is a subgenre frequently embraced by Black authors who write science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors, and especially by African American authors, but it is not the only thing we write. Why is the genre so popular with Black authors? And why is the popular genre, which is particularly associated with African Americans, so often maligned?

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Nature is Terrifying: Writing Horror in and about the Outdoors

December 9, 2023 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

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Panelists: Emma Osborne, Robin Rowland, Suzan Palumbo and Endria Richardson (moderator)
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When we spend time outside, our senses tend to be on high alert. Drawing upon visceral memories (your own or someone else’s) can be absolutely fantastic fodder for horror stories. Writers who love or have have successfully used the outdoors as setting or premise for their sinister tales discuss the many horrors waiting for us right outside our flimsy doors.