Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. The recipient of the PEN USA Freedom to Write Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, his fiction includes GraceLand (FSG), The Virgin of Flames (Penguin), and The Secret History of Las Vegas (Penguin). He is a Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University.
