Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of Pet , a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People\'s Literature, a Walter Honor Book and a Stonewall Honor Book; the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji , which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Award
Freshwater , which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction\'s First Novel Prize; and most recently, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir.
Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces..
Their debut poetry collection, Content Warning: Everything, is forthcoming in 2022.
Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of Pet , a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People\'s Literature, a Walter Honor Book and a Stonewall Honor Book; the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji , which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Award
Freshwater , which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction\'s First Novel Prize; and most recently, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
