Rorie Still was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Having found a passion for writing since she was in the second grade, Rorie has been word weaving from her story trunk ever since. In April 2013, Taking Wing, the story that seeded her first book, Flashbang, was first introduced to the public as a winner of the science and speculative fiction writing contest, Octavia City, organized by The Black Tribbles, then a G-Town Radio podcast. Rorie read the story live on the air for the program. Afterwards, Rorie was chosen to be one of the featured artists in Art Sanctuary’s 2015 Celebration of Black Literature. Rorie also published her second book, Hidden Melody, this same year (a co-authorship with Naila Mattison), Rorie was selected to present the poem “Star Children” for the Shaping Change: Octavia E. Butler Conference in La Jolla, CA. In November 2016, She produced a soundtrack EP for her first book, Flashbang which was released on Bandcamp in November 2016. Additionally, within 2017, Rorie had two short stories published within two different science fiction/hero anthologies. Capes at the End of the World in Black Power: The Superhero Anthology, edited by Balogun Ojetade and Bees in the V-Trap: A Junkless Trunk Story in Scribes of Nyota: Our Voices, Our Imagination, A Compendium, edited by Shawn Alleyne and Maurice Waters. Also in 2017, she took first place in the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention’s First Pitch Room contest. In September of 2018, Rorie published the second edition of Flashbang with illustrations and three new stories. Later, in March of 2018, Rorie Still applied for the. In 2018 she won a twenty-five hundred dollar grant from the Leeway Art and Change Grant to further fund the production of the Flashbang graphic novel. And in 2019, Rorie Still published her first graphic novel, Flashbang, that was based on the short-story book. In July of 2019, Rorie moved to Los Angeles, California in pursuit of a writing internship and is currently working on developing one of her short stories into an animated series as well as brainstorming her Dracula-based property into a live-action televsion show.
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