Danzy Senna is the author of six critically acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, Caucasia, won the Book of the Month Award for First Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award. The book was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Senna’s debut has been translated into twelve languages and become a modern classic.

Since publishing Caucasia, Senna has become one of today’s most widely respected voices tackling multiracial and complex social identities. Her other books include the novel, Symptomatic, the memoir, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History, the short story collection, You Are Free, and New People, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class, and manners in contemporary America. New People was named a Best Book of the Year for The New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Time Magazine, and NPR. Senna’s forthcoming novel, Colored Television, is a brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention that has been praised as a “brilliant, of-the-moment, just really almost perfect book” (Kirkus Reviews).

Senna is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and the 2016 Dos Passos Prize for Literature. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vogue, among other publications. She is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.