BY NNEDI OKORAFOR
Nnedi Okorafor is a speculative fiction novelist of Nigerian descent. Her novels include Who Fears Death (winner of the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel), Akata Witch (an Amazon.com Best Book of the Year), Zahrah the Windseeker (winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature), and The Shadow Speaker (winner of the Parallax Award). Her novel Akata Witch 2: Breaking Kola and her compilation of short stories Kabu Kabu are scheduled for release in 2014. Her children’s book Long Juju Man won the Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa. Nnedi’s short story “Windseekers” was a Writers of the Future Contest finalist in 2001 and published in volume 18. Nnedi holds a PhD in literature and is a professor of creative writing at Chicago State University.
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