Aziza Barnes Useless: ‘Snowstorm’ Author Used to be 32

Aziza “Z” Barnes, a poet and creator for the FX drama “Snowstorm” and Netflix‘s “Teenage Bounty Hunters” has died. They have been 32.

Their circle of relatives showed by means of a rep that Barnes died of suicide on Dec. 15. No additional main points have been launched.

“With heavy hearts, we remorseful about to tell you of the passing of an plain and loved artist, kid, sibling, and buddy Aziza ‘Z’ Barnes,” learn their circle of relatives’s remark. “Z has touched and impressed numerous folks each of their group and business and will probably be deeply ignored and without end cherished via all who have been lucky to have skilled their presence and paintings. An incomparable skill, we search for working out in Z’s phrases, and want convenience and working out as we grieve this loss.”

A Los Angeles local, Barnes earned a BFA from New York College and used to be in pursuit of an MFA finding out a the College of Mississippi. Barnes used to be additionally an completed poet as each a Callaloo Fellow and Poet’s Space Fellow.

Safia Elhillo, a “very long time” buddy of Barnes, posted a tribute on Substack writing that they have been a “good creator” and a “bender of the style who died too quickly, who leaves a complete group at the back of, accumulated in grief.” Elhillo then went directly to percentage a poem from Barnes titled “Eulogy for Her,” which she has liked since “[they] have been youngsters.”

A few of their different credit come with the “Recreation of Thrones” prequel sequence “Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” which is to be launched in 2025, and Max’s hip-hop drama “Rap Sh!t.”

(Pictured: FX’s “Snowstorm”)