Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Longlist, 2023 National Book Awards
Honoree, 2018 5 Under 35

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the author of the bestselling short story collection Friday Black and the novel Chain-Gang All-Stars
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Chain-Gang All-Stars

ISBN 9780593317334 Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House

Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. More about this book >

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Friday Black

ISBN 9781328911247 Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the stories of Adjei-Brenyah’s debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god. More about this book >

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    Selected by Colson Whitehead author photo, credit by Madeline WhiteheadColson Whitehead >

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2018 5 Under 35 Panel Discussion moderated by Ben Greenman


Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah at the 2018 5 Under 35 Celebration

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the author of the bestselling short story collection Friday Black and the novel Chain-Gang All-Stars. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer’s Row, Gravel, and Breakwater Review, where he was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. He is from Spring Valley, New York. He graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University.

(Photo caption: Alex M. Philip)

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