Emezi briefly started a short lived anonymous sex blog and a natural-hair blog which gave them little recognition.
After college, they enrolled in a veterinary school and dropped out before receiving their MPA in international public policy and nonprofit management from New York University. Įmezi relocated to the Appalachian region of the United States when they were 16 years old to attend college. Emezi was a "voracious" reader during childhood and they began writing short stories when they were five years old. Emezi started reading fantasy books and with their sister Yagazie used storytelling to escape the riots, dictatorship, and dangerous reality of their childhoods. Early life and education Īkwaeke Emezi was born in Umuahia in 1987 to an Igbo Nigerian father, and a mother who was the daughter of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants living in Malaysia. In 2021, Time featured them as a Next Generation Leader. Their work has earned them several awards and nominations including the Otherwise Award and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Emezi is a generalist who writes speculative fiction, romance, memoir and poetry for both young adults and adults with mostly LGBT themes. Akwaeke Emezi is a Nigerian fiction writer and video artist, best known for their novels Freshwater, Pet, and their New York Times bestselling novel The Death of Vivek Oji.
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