We are excited to announce that Meerkat Press has acquired Crimson in Quietus (A Sauútiverse Novel) by the multi-award-winning Afro-surrealist author Eugen Bacon. This inaugural Afrocentric Sauútiverse novel is a new kind of literary mystery where the investigator is not a detective, but a sound magic scientist. Coming Fall 2026.
is an African Australian author. She’s a Solstice, British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and a finalist in the Philip K. Dick Award, Ignyte and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was also announced in the honor list for “doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction.” Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a “sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work.” Visit her at eugenbacon.com.
