Nnedi Okorafor author page

Nnedi Okorafor biography

Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian-American writer of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for children, young adults and adults. She was born in the United States to Nigerian immigrant parents. She holds a PhD in Literature and two Master’s degrees, in Journalism and Literature.

Her works include Who Fears Death, the Binti novella trilogy, The Book of Phoenix, the Akata books and Lagoon.

Okorafor’s children’s book Long Juju Man won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer’s Prize for Africa. Her debut novel Zahrah the Windseeker won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. Binti won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella.

Okorafor has written comics for Marvel, including Black Panther: Long Live the King, Wakanda Forever and the Shuri series. LaGuardia, written by Okorafor and illustrated by Tana Ford, collects issues 1-4 of the mini-series and was published by Berger Books on 30 July 2019. Her 2025 novel Death of the Author won the NAACP Image Award for outstanding literary work in the fiction category.