Akwaeke Emezi

About Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi is a Nigerian fiction writer and visual artist, best known for their novels Freshwater (2018), Pet, and the New York Times bestselling work The Death of Vivek Oji. Emezi is a generalist who writes speculative fiction, romance, memoir, and poetry for both young adults and adults with mostly LGBTQ themes. Their work has earned them several awards and nominations including the Otherwise Award and Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

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Upcoming Titles

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  Eclipse & the Wolf February 16, 2027

  Ten years ago, Eclipse Orinabe and her aunt, Silver, were the sole survivors of a massacre that nearly wiped out their family. Then the Orinabe unleashed their revenge: the annihilation of the clans who betrayed them, and the release of rapture, a drug so potent that the Orinabe—once peaceful pharmaceutical makers—soon have St. Paradise in a chokehold. Disturbed by the Orinabe’s bloody rise, the surviving clan leaders nonetheless make peace with Silver, known as the Butcher, and accept Eclipse—a weapon disguised as a glamorous debuante.

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Earlier Books

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  Son of the Morning November 4, 2025

  From New York Times bestselling author Akwaeke Emezi comes a steamy paranormal romance set in the Black South—a bold new foray that takes us on a journey of magic and fantasy, from the whispering creeks outside the city of Salvation to the very depths of Hell itself. Tenderhearted Galilee was raised by the Kincaids, a formidable clan of Black women sequestered deep in the weeping willows and dark rushing creeks of their land. Galilee has always known that she’s different—that there is an old and unknowable secret around her very existence.

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  Little Rot June 18, 2024

  A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning, visionary Akwaeke Emezi One weekend. The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city. A party that goes awry. A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed. Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally and suddenly upending their lives.

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  Content Warning: Everything July 5, 2022

  In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The Death of Vivek Oji,and Dear Senthuran—imagines a new depth of belonging. Crafted of both divine and earthly materials, these poems travel from home to homesickness, tracing desire to surrender and abuse to survival, while mapping out a chosen family that includes the son of god, mary auntie, and magdalene with the chestnut eyes.

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  You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty May 24, 2022 View on Amazon: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
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  Bitter February 15, 2022 View on Amazon: Bitter
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  Pet 2019 View on Amazon: Pet

More New Books Coming Up

• Between the Lines by Haley Cass · Feb 16, 2027
• But Daddy I Love Him by Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh · Feb 16, 2027
• Champagne Problems by Hannah Grace · Feb 16, 2027
• Coffee and Conjuring by Isla Jewell · Feb 16, 2027
• Dark Union by Mark Greaney · Feb 16, 2027
• Deep Unlearning by Timnit Gebru · Feb 16, 2027
• Drive by Christian Horner · Feb 16, 2027
• Godbound by Rowan Skye · Feb 16, 2027
• Heiress of Storms by Nora Carmody · Feb 16, 2027
• If You Think You're Lonely Now by Gus Moreno · Feb 16, 2027

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