NNEDI OKORAFOR
was born in the United States to two Igbo (Nigerian) parents. She writes for readers of all ages. Her first novel, Zahrah the Windseeker, won the 2008 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature and was a finalist for the Parallax Award and the Kindred Award; her second, The Shadow Speaker, was a Book Sense Pick, winner of the Parallax Award, and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, the Essence Magazine Literary Award, and the Golden Duck Award, as well as a James Tiptree, Jr. Honor Book. Her most recent novel, and her first for adults, is Who Fears Death.
Nnedi Okorafor is a professor of creative writing at Chicago State University and lives in Illinois with her daughter Anyaugo.
Her Web site is www.nnedi.com.
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