Danzy Senna is the author of six critically acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, Caucasia, won the Book of the Month Award for First Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award. The book was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Senna’s debut has been translated into twelve languages and become a modern classic.

Since publishing Caucasia, Senna has become one of today’s most widely respected voices tackling multiracial and complex social identities. Her previous books include the novel, Symptomatic, the memoir, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History, the short story collection, You Are Free, and the novel, New People, named a Best Book of the Year for the The New York Times, Vogue, Time Magazine, and NPR.

Senna’s latest novel, Colored Television, a New York Times Notable Book of 2024, was an instant national bestseller and was praised as “brilliant…of-the-moment” (Kirkus Reviews), “the New Great American Novel” (The Los Angeles Times).

Senna, a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and the 2016 Dos Passos Prize for Literature, has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vogue, among other publications. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.