Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the
New York Times
-bestselling author of
Friday Black
. His work has appeared in
The New York Times Book Review
,
Esquire
,
The Paris Review
, and elsewhere. He was a National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" honoree, the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Saroyan Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book, along with many other honors. Raised in Spring Valley, New York, he now lives in the Bronx.