Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and urbanist. Her memoir, Aftershocks, was selected as a best book of 2021 by more than a dozen publications, including Time, Vogue, Esquire, and the BBC. It was named one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She is a winner of the 2019 Whiting Award in Nonfiction, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Orion, Granta, the Paris Review Daily, The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, Bon Appétit, Travel + Leisure, and others.
Nadia is the director of storytelling at Frontline Solutions, a Black-owned consulting firm that helps social change organizations define goals, execute plans, and evaluate impact. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and Southern New Hampshire University’s Mountainview MFA program.