The Pitt Humanities Center and Center for African American Poetry and Poetics will host Nnedi Okorafor, a Nigerian-American writer of science fiction and fantasy, for a weeklong seminar from May 4 to 8.

Okorafor will discuss the work of fantasy and how dreaming of other worlds helps us survive this one. She is best known for her Binti Series, a trilogy of African-futurist science fiction novellas. She has won the Hugo, Nebula, Eisner and World Fantasy awards and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.

Her most recent novel, “Death of the Author,” was heralded by the New York Times as "a spellbinding novel that traces a Nigerian-American woman’s quest for freedom and self-invention despite the social and cultural conventions that try to contain her." 

From 10 a.m. to noon daily from May 4 to 8, there will be an event featuring Okorafor — workshop, lecture, colloquia — in the Humanities Center space (602 Cathedral of Learning).

For more information, email CE Mackenzie at humctr@pitt.edu