ASU English professor wins NAACP Image Award for fiction (opens in new tab)

Nnedi Okorafor can’t imagine writing a book that wasn’t personal to her.In fact, Okorafor, a professor of practice in Arizona State University’s Department of English, knows she wouldn’t be capable of such a thing.“If someone asked me to write something that was not connected to me, I couldn’t do it,” she said. “And I wouldn’t want to do it.”