Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American writer, born in the Bronx and raised in Spring Valley, New York. He studied at the University at Albany, SUNY, and in the graduate writing programme at Syracuse University. After college he worked for the Rockland Coalition to End the New Jim Crow, an organisation campaigning against mass incarceration, and he later taught in Syracuse's graduate writing programme. In 2026 he became the William H. P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross. His debut novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars, which imagines prisoners fighting in televised combat, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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