Named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,” TOMI ADEYEMI is a Hugo- and Nebula Award–winning Nigerian American writer and storyteller. After graduating from Harvard University with an honors degree in English literature, she studied West African mythology, religion, and culture in Salvador, Brazil. She is the author of the groundbreaking No. 1 New York Times bestselling Legacy of Orïsha series, which includes Children of Blood and Bone, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, and Children of Anguish and Anarchy. The trilogy is being developed into a feature film. Adeyemi was named one of Forbes’s “30 Under 30 in Media” in 2020 and her website was selected as a “101 Best Websites” for writers by Writer’s Digest. Based in New York City, she can be found teaching creative writing online.
