American · b. 1991
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah writes speculative fiction about race and violence in America. "Friday Black" (2018), his debut story collection, imagined Black Friday as literal combat and racial trauma as supernatural affliction. "Chain-Gang All-Stars" (2023) was a finalist for the National Book Award—a dystopia where prisoners fight to the death for entertainment. Adjei-Brenyah was raised in Spring Valley, New York. His fiction makes visible what America prefers to ignore.