Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s (’02) work has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year; and the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck. Her novel Americanah, published around the world in 2013, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction; and was named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the 2013. She was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015. Notes On Grief, an essay about losing her father, was published in 2021. Her upcoming novel Dream Count will be published in March 2025 by Penguin Random House. Since she attended the workshops in 2002 she has become an international phenomenon. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. Visit her website here.