Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is from Spring Valley, New York. He graduated from SUNY Albany and went on to receive his MFA from Syracuse University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer's Row, Gravel, and The Breakwater Review, where he was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. Friday Black is his first book.
Genres: Science Fiction
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Anthologies containing stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 (2019)
(Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, book 5)
edited by
John Joseph Adams and Carmen Maria Machado
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