Lagos Noir

The editor, Chris Abani, is an award-winning novelist and poet (PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize, and a Guggenheim Award)Through his TED Talks, public speaking and essays Abani is known as an international voice on humanitarianism, art, ethics, and our shared political responsibilityHe is Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern UniversityHis previous works have been critically-acclaimed ( New York Times ,

Los Angeles Times , etc.)His novel

Graceland

was a Today Show Book Club PickHe is the coeditor of the African Poetry Book Fund's annual New-Generation African Poets Box Sets (published by Akashic)