Biography
Bates, Karen Grigsby. “Octavia Butler: Writing Herself into the Story.” KQED, 12 Jan. 2024, www.kqed.org/arts/13630400/octavia-butler-writing-herself-into-the-story.
“Biography: Octavia Estelle Butler.” National Women’s History Museum, www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/octavia-estelle-butler. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
“Remembering Afrofuturist Octavia Butler | National Museum of African American History and Culture.” The National Museum of African American History and Culture, nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/remembering-afrofuturist-octavia-butler. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
“The Author.” Octavia E. Butler, www.octaviabutler.com/theauthor. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
Literary Criticism
Gartner, Lindsey. “Intersectionality and Empathy in Afrofuturist Feminist Dystopian Narratives: Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring.” MacEwan University Student eJournal, vol. 5, no. 1, 2021, https://journals.macewan.ca/muse/article/view/2005/1308.
Octavia Butler’s Blasphemous Solidarities - Boston Review, www.bostonreview.net/articles/octavia-butlers-blasphemous-solidarities/ . Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
Powel, Megan Hurley. “‘We’re Never Trapped by Power’: A Plurality of Feminist Resistance in Octavia Butler’s Dawn.” SIC-Journal, Dec. 2019, www.sic-journal.org/Article/Index/569.
“View of Appropriated Bodies: Trauma, Biopower and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and James Tiptree, Jr.’S “the Girl Who Was Plugged In.”” Atlantisjournal.org, 2025, www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/524/275 . Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.