About

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was raised in Spring

Valley, New York, and now lives in the Bronx. His

debut collection, Friday Black, was a New York

Times bestseller, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book

Award and the William Saroyan International

Prize for Writing, and was a finalist for the National

Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award and the

Dylan Thomas Prize. His first novel Chain-Gang

All-Stars was a finalist for the National Book

Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Waterstones

Debut Fiction Prize and the Books Are My Bag

Awards, and selected as a New York Times Top

Ten Books of the Year. Adjei-Brenyah is a National

Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ honoree.