Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American speculative fiction writer best known for the short-story collection Friday Black (2018) and the novel Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023). The novel imagines a future America where prisoners fight on television for a chance at freedom, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction. Adjei-Brenyah was named a 5 under 35 Honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2018, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award in 2019, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2025.
