Milton Davis

Writer/Publisher, NVME Media

Milton Davis is a Black speculative fiction writer and the owner of MVmedia, LLC, a small publishing company specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and Sword and Soul. MVmedia’s mission is to provide speculative fiction books that represent people of color in a positive manner.

He is the author of twenty-one novels and short story collections, including his most recent work, the Sword and Soul adventure Eda Blessed II. Davis is also a contributing author to Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, published by Marvel and Titan Books, and the co-author of Hadithi and the State of Black Speculative Fiction with Eugen Bacon.

In addition to his own writing, Davis has served as editor and co-editor of eleven anthologies, including Spyfunk!; Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL; Cyberfunk!; The City; Dark Universe and Dark Universe: The Bright Empire (with Gene Peterson); Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology and Griot: Sisters of the Spear (with Charles R. Saunders); The Ki Khanga Anthology; Steamfunk!; and Dieselfunk! (with Balogun Ojetade).

His work has also been featured in Black Power: The Superhero Anthology and Rococoa, published by Roaring Lions Productions; Skelos 2: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy; Steampunk Writers Around the World, published by Luna Press; Heroika: Dragoneaters, published by First Perseid Press; Bass Reeves: Frontier Marshal Volume Two; and Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire.

Davis, along with Balogun Ojetade, won the 2014 Urban Action Showcase Award for Best Script for their screenplay Ngolo. His short story The Swarm was nominated for the 2017 British Science Fiction Association Award for Short Fiction, and his story Carnival received a nomination for the same award in 2020.