Suyi Davies Okungbowa
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Suyi Davies Okungbowa is an award-winning Nigerian author of fantasy, science fiction and general speculative fiction. He has published various novels and novellas for adults, the latest of which is Lost Ark Dreaming (Tordotcom, 2024). Season of the Serpent, the final entry in his epic fantasy trilogy The Nameless Republic is forthcoming in 2026. His debut novel. David Mogo, Godhunter (Abaddon, 2019) won the 2020 Nommo Award for Best Speculative Novel by an African.

Writing as Suyi Davies, he has also published works for younger audiences, such as Stranger Things: Lucas on the Line (Random House Kids, 2022) and Minecraft: The Haven Trials (Del Rey, 2021), and contributed to the instant #1 NYT bestselling anthology Black Boy Joy (Delacorte, 2020). His shorter works have appeared in various periodicals and anthologies, and have been nominated for various awards.

Okungbowa is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, where he currently lives. As a speaker and instructor, he has taught writing at the college level and spoken at various venues, institutionally and publicly. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.

  • BLACK PANTHER: THE INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE OF WAKANDA
    Random House Worlds, 2025
  • LOST ARK DREAMING
    Tordotcom, 2024
  • WARRIOR OF THE WIND
    Orbit, 2023
  • SON OF THE STORM
    Orbit, 2021