Author TARU

Author TARU writes contemporary urban fiction rooted in the cities and systems that shape Black American life. Published by Black Fuego Press, Author TARU is the winner of the 2026 BCALA Self-Publishing eBook Award for Fiction, presented by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, for the novel Silas Page.

The Author TARU catalog maps how the streets actually work. The Trap House Baby series follows one family across four generations, from the trap that raises them to the reckoning that defines them. Silas Page, the award winner, is the book at the heart of it, a story about the children a system has already written off, and what one of them owes the next generation when nobody owed him anything.

Author TARU writes in a voice that does not soften itself for outside readers. It is the survival math of Black urban life told from the inside, for readers who already know the streets these books describe and for readers who want to understand them honestly. Author TARU is a brand of Black Fuego Press, an independent publishing house based in Virginia.

Out now: BLOOD DON'T MEAN SHIT: Some families are built on love. This one was built on lies.

Yasir never had a family—until Crown pulled him out of a group home at fourteen and gave him a name, a purpose, and a place at the table. For twenty years, Yasir served as Crown's most trusted enforcer. He buried the bodies. Kept the secrets. Built an empire that stretched across nine cities. He was loyal to the bone.