Nnedi Okorafor

Zahrah the Windseeker (Houghton Mifflin) is Nnedi Okorafor's first novel. Her second novel, Ejii the Shadow Speaker, is published by Hyperion Books for Children. Nnedi's short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines, including Dark Matter II, Strange Horizons, the Margin Anthology of Magical Realism and Writers of the Future, Volume XVIII. Nnedi lives with her daughter, Anyaugo, and family in Illinois.