About our 2026 Author –
ANGELA FLOURNOY
Award-Winning Novelist and
National Book Award Finalist
ANGELA FLOURNOY’s bestselling new novel, The Wilderness, was released by Mariner Books in fall 2025. The novel was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. Her debut novel, The Turner House, was a finalist for the National Book Award, won the VCU Cabell First Novel Prize, and was also a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The New School, Columbia University, Princeton University and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Flournoy has received fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy in Berlin. She was raised in Southern California by a mother from Los Angeles and a father from Detroit.
