You made a fool of death with your beauty - akwaeke emezi

Emezi, Akwaeke: - Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji , which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Jean Stein Award; Pet , a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature, a Walter Honor Book, and a Stonewall Honor Book; Freshwater , which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize; Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, which won the 2022 ALA Stonewall Prize for Best Nonfiction Book; and most recently, Content Warning: Everything , their debut poetry collection, and Bitter , their second young adult novel .

Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation and featured on a Time cover as a Next Generation Leader, they are based in liminal spaces.