Chris Abani Author & Editor

Chris Abani is a Nigerian poet and novelist, and the author of Kalakuta Republic (Saqi Books), The Virgin of the Flames, GraceLand and Becoming Abigail. He is the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Hemingway Book Prize. Song for Night won the PEN Beyond the Margins Award. He lives in teaches in California. www.chrisabani.com