Nnedi Okorafor, PhD

This dog always makes me laugh, 🤭.

Person crouching on the floor vacuuming and looking under the dresser. Cat on a dresser. Jesus hiding under it looking creepy AF. Caption: "And then one day, quite unexpectedly, Peter found Jesus."

Heeheehee!

Yassa African Restaurant Yassa fish and plantain

This Chicago restaurant (Yassa African Restaurant) is featured in my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR for a reason. 😋!!!

I’ll be in Chi in a few and I’m definitely going to try and hit it up.

A high of 105 in a little over a week

There’s a heatwave coming and he’s going to love it. 😮‍💨

It’s 76F in here and Neptune just jumped into my arms shivering. Had to snuggle him warm and put on his sweater. Lol, this skin cat is made for Phoenix weather.

i never try to make them unrecognizable. i throw them right on the page as is (i've even used names before)...and they still don't notice.

don't flatter yourself. 😊

Heh, yeah, don’t piss off writers.

We’ll immortalize you in, uh, creative ways. 😈

One of the finest things about being a writer is the revenge I get to take on people who did me wrong.

Facts: It’s cathartic and bleeds out all the fury and resentment. I work through so much. I create something beautiful from something nasty. They never recognize themselves, 😆.

I wish I could agree with you. It does look like me. But it’s clearly NOT me.

awesome! :-)!!!!

that doesn't explain putting me in those very western-coded clothes.

that doesn't explain putting me in those very western-coded clothes.

I DETEST suits and blazers and anything of the sort. I do not wear these items. This is a conscious decision I make that has MEANING. To me, those clothes reflect a colonial menta...lol, let me not even start.

The way AI-generated images are used is so often such shit.

a green and yellow parakeet is walking on a glass table ALT: a green and yellow parakeet is walking on a glass table

And I don't smile like that.
And that is not me.
And this is what I want to do to that false image...

I'm flattered but...WTF is this AI shit image? NEVER EVER would I wear this type of SHIT. lol! NEVER. TUFIAKWA! 🤮 FAKE FAKE FAKE. A visual lie. OMFG, what a world.

👋🏾!!

Are those nunbirds? I have been obsessing over them for the last five minutes, I admit, 😆.

Yep. One of the most abundant birds in my neighborhood and easily THE most abundant bird around my home. 😊

Hummingbird in a tree

It’s always good to pause and appreciate, 😌.

I can hear this phrase, lol.

Periwinkle on his back on Anyaugo’s legs

#caturday 🤣

We know each other, heh.
But yeah.

Nnedi and Claire

Interviewed musician/singer/songwriter Grimes (I know her as Claire Boucher…yeah yeah, she’s also the mother of 3 of children with Musk) yesterday via Zoom for Interview Magazine. She asked for me specifically. It’s been a while since I wore my journalist hat; it still fits! 📝

It’s been out over a year and been well received. In general, I have zero reason to beat around the bush, lol. It is what it is.

It’s been out over a year and been well received. In general, I have zero reason to beat around the bush, lol. It is what it is.

Only those who know my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR will understand that post and that’s fine.

Just needed to say it.

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR features a book within the book.

Also, I have to keep saying “my novel” because some people are willfully dense and think I’m talking about the Barthes essay,😒.

I’m seeing the novel Rusted Robots in my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR get described as “Zelu creating an AI-driven epic”. I guess they want that buzz word “AI” in there, but Zelu’s novel is centered around physical robots, AI and machines in a post-human world. And Zelu WROTE it, why say “created” it?!

Nnedi with Neptune Onyedike the sphynx cat

#caturday

3 headshots of nnedi okorafor, tananarive due, and stephen graham jones on a paper background with text and a qr code

Get your tickets to the Locus Awards in May! Guests of Honor are Nnedi Okorafor, Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due, we are so excited to be partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley!

Tickets at locusmag.com/2026-lo... or via the link in our bio!! C U there.

No. It’s definitely not all opinions. Plenty are facts I care less and less to explain them.