Completing the "Stories of the Fantastic" panel is Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah!

As our last author announcement before Christmas, we thought we would complete our list of authors who will be appearing on our panel which we’ve provisionally entitled “Stories of the Fantastic.” In addition to Brenda Peynado and Kelly Link, we’re thrilled to welcome Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, whose debut collection of short stories, Friday Black, was fabulously well received, and deservedly so.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black. Originally from Spring Valley, New York, he graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University (where he studied with a certain G. Saunders, he of our 2019 keynote event.)

His work has appeared or is forthcoming from numerous publications, including theNew York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, theParis Review, Guernica, and Longreads. He was selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation's “5 Under 35” honorees, is the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Aspen Words Literary Prize.