Tucson Festival of Books

Tochi Onyebuchi (he/him)



Christina Orlando

Award-winning author Tochi Onyebuchi's most recent book is "Harmattan Season." He also is the author of "Goliath," a Locus Award and Dragon Award finalist, and the young adult novel "Beasts Made of Night," which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African. His novella "Riot Baby," a finalist for the Hugo, the Nebula, the Locus, and the NAACP Image Awards, won an Ignyte Award, the New England Book Award for Fiction, and an ALA Alex Award. He holds a B.A. from Yale, an M.F.A. in screenwriting from the Tisch School of the Arts, a Master's degree in droit économique from Sciences Po, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

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Awards: World Fantasy Award, Alex Award, Connecticut Book Award, New England Book Award for Fiction, Ignyte Award

Communities: African American


Books:
Harmattan Season
A Novel
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Tor Publishing Group
January 2026
ISBN 9781250814494
240 pages

Racebook
A Personal History of the Internet
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
October 2025
ISBN 9780802166258
256 pages