Tamika is author of The Curse of Hester Gardens (Erewhon/Kensington), Unshod, Cackling, and Naked (Unnerving Books), which is the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards WINNER for Horror, and which Publishers Weekly calls “powerful,” “unsettling,” and “terrifying,” as well as author of Salamander Justice (Madness Heart Press). She served as fiction editor for Foreword INDIES Award-winning anthology, Graffiti. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several speculative fiction anthologies as well as in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Interzone, Prairie Schooner, and The New York Times, among others.

An active/pro member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), as well as International Thriller Writers (ITW), she has attended the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop and the Community of Writers. A former journalist and producer, she has producing credits at Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, as well as at NBC and ABC News. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Columbia University and a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.