A conversation with writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

For today's conversation, Edward Schwarzschild, NYS Writers Institute fellow and director of Creative Writing at UAlbany, interviews writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, a 2013 University at Albany graduate who went on to receive his MFA at Syracuse University, is the author of the New York Times bestselling short story collection, Friday Black, a satirical look at what it’s like to be young and black in America. Friday Black won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and bestselling author Roxane Gay called it, “dark and captivating and essential... A call to arms and a condemnation.” He was also selected by Colson Whitehead as one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Honorees.

Learn more about Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana visited UAlbany in October 2018 as part of the Writers Institute’s Visiting Writers Series, and Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl interviewed him for a Conversation post in May 2020.

Website www.nanakwameadjei-brenyah.com/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/king_nk/

Read "Zimmer Land" a story from Friday Black

We support local and independent booksellers. Friday Black is available to order from The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza: https://www.bhny.com/book/9781328911247

This conversation is cosponsored by UAlbany’s Department of English.