Tochi Onyebuchi

Tochi Onyebuchi
smiling bearded black man wearing glasses and blue T-shirt
Onyebuchi at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Born (1987-10-04) October 4, 1987 (age 37)
Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, lawyer
Alma mater
GenreFantasy, science fiction, young adult, Afrofuturist
Years active2017–present
Notable works
Website
www.tochionyebuchi.com

Tochi Onyebuchi listen (born October 4, 1987) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer.[1] His 2020 novella, Riot Baby, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the World Fantasy Award in 2021.[2][3] He is known for incorporating civil rights and Afrofuturism into his stories and novels.[4][5]

Early life

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Onyebuchi was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, United states.[6] His parents were Nigerian Igbo immigrants Elizabeth Ihuegbu and Nnamdi Onyebuchi, who was a restaurant manager.[6][7] His first name means "praise God" in Igbo.[8]

His family lived in New Britain, Connecticut, until 1998, when his father died at the age of 39.[1][7] His family then moved to Newington, Connecticut, to a mostly white neighborhood.[1][6] He attended the Choate Rosemary Hall school in Wallingford, Connecticut.[1]

He says: "Growing up as the son of Nigerian immigrants, I always felt like I was in a position where I didn't completely identify as an African-American; I can trace my family eight generations back, but I'm not fully Nigerian, because I was born in America. I operate in that sort of in-between space."[9]

As a youth, Onyebuchi was an avid reader and was strongly influenced by X-Men comics, especially the character of Black Panther.[6][9] While he appreciated works by black authors he was required to read in high school, such as Their Eyes Were Watching God, Invisible Man and Native Son, he preferred adventure and science fiction stories.[10] His favorite book was the manga series Blade of the Immortal.[10]

In high school, he studied abroad for a year in France, where he fell in love with Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, and was inspired when he learned Dumas was of African ancestry.[10] Onyebuchi wrote extensively growing up and attempted to sell his first novel in high school.[6]

He attended Yale University, graduating with a degree in political science in 2009.[11] While there, he was a member of the fraternity of St. Anthony Hall.[12] During college, he spent a summer in Morocco learning Arabic.[13]

He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in screenwriting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[1][14] While getting his MFA, he worked as a digital media intern for Marvel Comics.[9]

Onyebuchi also received a master's degree in Global Economic Law from Instituts d'études politiques in France.[14] He then attended Columbia Law School, receiving a Juris Doctor degree in 2015.[14][6] There, he "got woke" about the differences between the lives of white and black Americans.[6]

Career

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After law school, Onyebuchi was licensed with the New York Bar and began a career in civil rights law.[1][4] He worked in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office and was also an investigator for New York City's Legal Aid Society where he assisted prisoners from Rikers Island.[1][15] He said, "This brought me to the edge of burnout. I wanted to remain involved in those issues, but away from the constant grind. I realized I didn't have the stamina for it."[1]

He worked at a high-tech firm as a domain expert from 2017 to 2019, using his two-hour daily commute on the train as time to write.[1][4] In 2019, he left his job to devote his time to writing.[4]

Novels and stories

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Onyebuchi began writing novels and submitting them to publishers when he was in high school.[6] When his first 16 novels were rejected, he decided to move on to a new project rather than to edit and resubmit.[4] Because of this process, he had written 17 novels in 15 years.[4] About a year after law school, he signed a contract to write two young adult novels.[9]

His first published novel, Beasts Made of Night (2017), was written for young adult readers and is set in a mythical dystopian world inspired by Nigerian folklore.[1][16][17] School Library Journal wrote: "Onyebuchi's world-building is strong, and the details leap off the page; readers will witness the poverty, smell the delicious food, and feel the physical pain of being a sin-eater."[16] Time wrote: "This balancing act of thrill and inquiry promises to make the 33-year-old Onyebuchi a power player in the YA world in the years to come."[17] Beast of Night won the 2018 Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African.[18] He published a sequel, Crown of Thunder, in 2018.[19]

He then wrote the War Girls young adult series, which includes War Girls in 2019 and Rebel Sisters in 2020.[20][21] The setting for War Girls is Nigeria of 2172, but using historical events such as the Biafran War.[22] School Library Journal wrote that War Girls was "A bleak but compulsively readable story with high action and high drama in equal measure".[22]

In 2020, he published Riot Baby, revolving around Kev, born during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and his sister who possesses telekinetic powers.[23] Onyebuchi drew on his experience as a lawyer in setting much of the novel at Rikers Island in New York, where Kev is wrongfully incarcerated.[15] His inspiration for the novel came from the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin and the lack of indictments of the police officers who killed them.[15][3] He says, "I felt a rage born of impotence. At the same time, as a writer, I clung to this idea of writers as alchemists—that we can take pain and anger and rage and sorrow and turn it into a work of art that will alleviate this crippling sense of loneliness."[15] Riot Baby won the Alex Award for young adult fiction from the American Library Association, the Ignyte Award for best novella, and the World Fantasy Award for best novella.[24][25][3] Riot Baby was also a finalist for the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella.[26]

In 2022, Onyebuchi's first adult science fiction novel, Goliath, was published by Tor Books.[27][28] He started working on this novel before writing Beasts Made of Night.[4] Goliath is set in the year 2050 when the wealthy have moved to space colonies, leaving the poor behind in the crumbling remains of Earth.[28] Through his novel, Onyebuchi critiques income inequality, gentrification, and racism.[4] Publishers Weekly wrote that it was "urgent, gorgeous work".[29] It was selected as The New York Times Editors' Choice Pick and one of "5 Books Not to Miss" by USA Today,[12][28] and was a nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel in the 2022 Dragon Awards.

His stories have appeared in several anthologies and Asimov's Science Fiction, Ideomancer, Lightspeed, Omenauna Magazine, and Uncanny Magazine.[30][10]

Non-fiction

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In his 2021 non-fiction work (S)kinfolk, Onyebuchi writes about the impact that reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah had on him, as the child of Nigerian immigrants who did not see a himself reflected in a novel until the age of 26. Publishers Weekly, characterizing (S)kinfolk as a "moving blend of criticism and memoir", observed: "Readers familiar with Americanah will appreciate the author’s insight, and those new to it will find Onyebuchi’s masterful integration of anecdote and criticism accessible. Full of fresh perspective, this is an eye-opener."[31]

Comics

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Onyebuchi's first comic was a Domino story for the anthology Marvel's Voices: Legacy.[9] One reviewer noted, "Tochi Onyebuchi writes one of the most effective Domino stories ever..."[32]

In 2021, Marvel announced that Onyebuchi would be writing a new comics series titled Black Panther Legends, focused on the origin of the Black Panther, with illustrations by Setor Fiadzigbey.[9][33] A long-time fan of comics, Onyebuchi said his response to this project was: "'Is this real? Is this really happening?' ...I still can't totally process that I am writing a Black Panther book for Marvel."[9]

In 2022, Onyebuchi wrote a Captain America preview comic titled Captain America #0, alongside Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzig,[34][35] It was illustrated by Mattia De Iluis.[34][35] Onyebuchi went on to write Captain America: Symbol of Truth, with art by R. B. Silva.[36][37]

Video games

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In 2021, Onyebuchi was among the writers of Call Of Duty: Vanguard video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision.[38][39]

Awards and honors

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Nominations

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Personal life

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Onyebuchi resides in New Haven, Connecticut.[1]

Published works

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Novels and novellas

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  • —— (2020). Riot Baby (Hardcover ed.). Tor Books. ISBN 9781250214751.[40]
  • —— (2022). Goliath (Hardcover ed.). Tor Books. ISBN 9781250782953.[53]
  • —— (2022). A Righteous Man (ebook ed.). Amazon Original Stories.

Nonfiction

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Young adult novels

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Beasts Made of Night series

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War Girls series

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Comics

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  • Black Panther Legends, Marvel Comics, 2021. ISBN 9781302931414
  • Legends Black Panther Legends #1, Marvel Comics, 2021.[55]
  • Black Panther Legends #2, Marvel Comics, 2021.[56]
  • Black Panther Legends #3, Marvel Comics, 2022.[57]
  • Black Panther Legends #4, Marvel Comics, 2022.[58]
  • Marvel's Voices: Legacy volume 1. various authors. Marvel, February 1, 2022. ISBN 9781302928148[9][59]
  • Captain America: Symbol of Truth #1-14, 750, Marvel Comics, 2022.[60]

Short stories in anthologies

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Short stories in magazines

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Essays

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  • "From Scalia and a White Supremacist, a Victory for Prisoners' Rights", The Common Law, November 2015.
  • "Where Do Scalia's Come From?", Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, 2016, p. 13–15.[75]
  • "From Harlem to Wakanda: on Luke Cage and Black Panther", Oxford University Press Blog, November 12, 2016.[76]
  • "Homecoming: How Afrofuturism Bridges the Past and the Present", Tor.com, February 27, 2018.[77]
  • "The Art of the Drug Deal: Kanye West, 'Daytona', and the Exploitation of Addiction", RaceBaitr, June 21, 2018.[78]
  • "Homo Duplex", Uncanny Magazine, #24, September/October 2018.[79]
  • "invisible: Not Seeing Myself in Any of my High School Reading Changed Me More than You'd Think", Slate, June 2019.[80]
  • "White Bears in Sugar Land: Juneteenth, Cages, and Afrofuturism", Tor.com, June 19, 2019.[81]
  • "Select Difficulty", Tor.com, August 26, 2019.[82]
  • "My Gift Was Memory: On Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer", Tor.com, October 15, 2019.[83]
  • "30 Minutes Till Madness: Power and Male Derangement in The Wheel of Time", Tor.com, October 21, 2019.[84]
  • "'Where in your affidavit does it say you're Black?': Why Worldbuilding Can't Neglect Race", Tor.com, January 21, 2020.[85]
  • "Why War Stories Could Reinjure Those Affected", Oxford University Press Blog, April 8, 2020.[86]
  • "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest", Tor.com, June 1, 2020.[87]
  • "Fine Weather, Isn't It?", Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Bulletin #215, December 8, 2020.[88]

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Tochi Onyebuchi's personal website: https://www.tochionyebuchi.com