Tochi Onyebuchi Explained

Tochi Onyebuchi
Birth Date:4 October 1987
Birth Place:Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
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    Occupation:Author, lawyer
    Years Active:2017–present
    Genre:Fantasy, science fiction, young adult, Afrofuturist
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    Tochi Onyebuchi (born October 4, 1987) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer. His 2020 novella, Riot Baby, received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the World Fantasy Award in 2021. He is known for incorporating civil rights and Afrofuturism into his stories and novels.[1] [2]

    Early life

    Onyebuchi was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, United states. His parents were Nigerian Igbo immigrants Elizabeth Ihuegbu and Nnamdi Onyebuchi, who was a restaurant manager.[3] [4] His first name means "praise God" in Igbo.[5]

    His family lived in New Britain, Connecticut, until 1998, when his father died at the age of 39. His family then moved to Newington, Connecticut, to a mostly white neighborhood.[6] He attended the Choate Rosemary Hall school in Wallingford, Connecticut.

    He says: "Growing up as the son of Nigerian immigrants, I always felt like I was in a position where I didn't completely identify as an African-American; I can trace my family eight generations back, but I'm not fully Nigerian, because I was born in America. I operate in that sort of in-between space."

    As a youth, Onyebuchi was an avid reader and was strongly influenced by X-Men comics, especially the character of Black Panther. While he appreciated works by black authors he was required to read in high school, such as Their Eyes Were Watching God, Invisible Man and Native Son, he preferred adventure and science fiction stories. His favorite book was the manga series Blade of the Immortal.

    In high school, he studied abroad for a year in France, where he fell in love with Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, and was inspired when he learned Dumas was of African ancestry.[7] Onyebuchi wrote extensively growing up and attempted to sell his first novel in high school.

    He attended Yale University, graduating with a degree in political science in 2009.[8] While there, he was a member of the fraternity of St. Anthony Hall.[9] During college, he spent a summer in Morocco learning Arabic.[10]

    He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in screenwriting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While getting his MFA, he worked as a digital media intern for Marvel Comics.

    Onyebuchi also received a master's degree in Global Economic Law from Instituts d'études politiques in France. He then attended Columbia Law School, receiving a Juris Doctor degree in 2015.[11] There, he "got woke" about the differences between the lives of white and black Americans.

    Career

    After law school, Onyebuchi was licensed with the New York Bar and began a career in civil rights law. He worked in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office and was also an investigator for New York City's Legal Aid Society where he assisted prisoners from Rikers Island.[12] He said, "This brought me to the edge of burnout. I wanted to remain involved in those issues, but away from the constant grind. I realized I didn't have the stamina for it."

    He worked at a high-tech firm as a domain expert from 2017 to 2019, using his two-hour daily commute on the train as time to write. In 2019, he left his job to devote his time to writing.

    Novels and stories

    Onyebuchi began writing novels and submitting them to publishers when he was in high school. When his first 16 novels were rejected, he decided to move on to a new project rather than to edit and resubmit. Because of this process, he had written 17 novels in 15 years. About a year after law school, he signed a contract to write two young adult novels.

    His first published novel, Beasts Made of Night (2017), was written for young adult readers and is set in a mythical dystopian world inspired by Nigerian folklore.[13] [14] School Library Journal wrote: "Onyebuchi's world-building is strong, and the details leap off the page; readers will witness the poverty, smell the delicious food, and feel the physical pain of being a sin-eater." Time wrote: "This balancing act of thrill and inquiry promises to make the 33-year-old Onyebuchi a power player in the YA world in the years to come." Beast of Night won the 2018 Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African. He published a sequel, Crown of Thunder, in 2018.

    He then wrote the War Girls young adult series, which includes War Girls in 2019 and Rebel Sisters in 2020. The setting for War Girls is Nigeria of 2172, but using historical events such as the Biafran War.[15] School Library Journal wrote that War Girls was "A bleak but compulsively readable story with high action and high drama in equal measure".

    In 2020, he published Riot Baby, revolving around Kev, born during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and his sister who possesses telekinetic powers.[16] Onyebuchi drew on his experience as a lawyer in setting much of the novel at Rikers Island in New York, where Kev is wrongfully incarcerated. His inspiration for the novel came from the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin and the lack of indictments of the police officers who killed them. He says, "I felt a rage born of impotence. At the same time, as a writer, I clung to this idea of writers as alchemists—that we can take pain and anger and rage and sorrow and turn it into a work of art that will alleviate this crippling sense of loneliness." Riot Baby won the Alex Award for young adult fiction from the American Library Association, the Ignyte Award for best novella, and the World Fantasy Award for best novella.[17] [18] Riot Baby was also a finalist for the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novella.[19]

    In 2022, Onyebuchi's first adult science fiction novel, Goliath, was published by Tor Books.[20] [21] He started working on this novel before writing Beasts Made of Night. Goliath is set in the year 2050 when the wealthy have moved to space colonies, leaving the poor behind in the crumbling remains of Earth. Through his novel, Onyebuchi critiques income inequality, gentrification, and racism. Publishers Weekly wrote that it was "urgent, gorgeous work".[22] It was selected as The New York Times Editors' Choice Pick and one of "5 Books Not to Miss" by USA Today, and was a nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel in the 2022 Dragon Awards.

    His stories have appeared in several anthologies and Asimov's Science Fiction, Ideomancer, Lightspeed, Omenauna Magazine, and Uncanny Magazine.[23]

    Non-fiction

    In his 2021 non-fiction work (S)kinfolk, Onyebuchi writes about the impact that reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah had on him, as the child of Nigerian immigrants who did not see a himself reflected in a novel until the age of 26. Publishers Weekly, characterizing (S)kinfolk as a "moving blend of criticism and memoir", observed: "Readers familiar with Americanah will appreciate the author’s insight, and those new to it will find Onyebuchi’s masterful integration of anecdote and criticism accessible. Full of fresh perspective, this is an eye-opener."[24]

    Comics

    Onyebuchi's first comic was a Domino story for the anthology Marvel's Voices: Legacy. One reviewer noted, "Tochi Onyebuchi writes one of the most effective Domino stories ever..."[25]

    In 2021, Marvel announced that Onyebuchi would be writing a new comics series titled Black Panther Legends, focused on the origin of the Black Panther, with illustrations by Setor Fiadzigbey.[26] [27] A long-time fan of comics, Onyebuchi said his response to this project was: Is this real? Is this really happening?' ...I still can't totally process that I am writing a Black Panther book for Marvel."

    In 2022, Onyebuchi wrote a Captain America preview comic titled Captain America #0, alongside Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzig,[28] [29] It was illustrated by Mattia De Iluis. Onyebuchi went on to write Captain America: Symbol of Truth, with art by R. B. Silva.[30] [31]

    Video games

    In 2021, Onyebuchi was among the writers of Call Of Duty: Vanguard video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision.[32] [33]

    Awards and honors

    Nominations

    Personal life

    Onyebuchi resides in New Haven, Connecticut.[6]

    Published works

    Novels and novellas

    Nonfiction

    Young adult novels

    Beasts Made of Night series

    War Girls series

    Comics

    Short stories in anthologies

    Short stories in magazines

    Essays

    External links

    Tochi Onyebuchi's personal website: https://www.tochionyebuchi.com

    Notes and References

    1. Krantz, Rachel. (2021, November 8). "Freedom Writer", Publishers Weekly, 268 (45): 37–38. via EBSCO, accessed June 23, 2022.
    2. Radel, Felecia Wellington. "Afrofuturism Vibes Are in a Renaissance; Read How Tomorrow May be Here Already", USA Today, May 22, 2022, p. 6. via Gale General OneFile (retrieved June 23, 2022).
    3. News: Ouellette . Katherine . January 23, 2020 . How X-Men And Black Lives Matter Shaped Tochi Onyebuchi's Riot Baby . en . . February 12, 2020 . January 23, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200123171716/https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/01/23/race-latest-book-onyebuchi-riot-baby . live .
    4. News: October 8, 1998 . Nnamdi Onyebuchi; of New Britain . . 12 February 2020 . August 4, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210804005313/https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1998-10-08-9810080787-story.html . live .
    5. Web site: Tochi Onyebuchi. Author & Book Resources to Support Reading Education. TeachingBooks. 14 February 2020. August 31, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190831025730/https://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=30741. live.
    6. News: Dunne . Susan . Dystopian Beasts Made Of Night By New Haven Author A Metaphor For Racial Injustice . February 12, 2020 . . October 25, 2017 . July 14, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210714222227/https://www.courant.com/ctnow/arts-theater/hc-new-haven-author-horror-novel-1029-20171028-story.html . live .
    7. News: January 16, 2020 . Interview With an Author: Tochi Onyebuchi . en . . February 12, 2020 . April 5, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200405090420/https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/interview-author-tochi-onyebuchi . live .
    8. News: Zhou . Carrie . Tochi Onyebuchi '09 publishes sci-fi novel . February 12, 2020 . . January 22, 2020 . en . January 23, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200123070410/https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/01/22/tochi-onyebuchi-09-publishes-sci-fi-novel/ . live .
    9. "Milestones " (PDF). The Review. St. Anthony Hall (Spring): 27. 2022.
    10. Web site: 2021-05-14 . An Interview with Alex Award Winner Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby . 2022-06-23 . The Hub . en-US . August 8, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220808164020/https://www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2021/05/14/an-interview-with-alex-award-winner-tochi-onyebuchi-author-of-riot-baby/ . live .
    11. Web site: Tochi Onyebuchi . . February 12, 2020 . February 11, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200211190117/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2155537/tochi-onyebuchi/ . live .
    12. News: Levine . Beth . May 30, 2019 . BookExpo 2019: Tochi Onyebuchi Channels Rage and Hope . en . . February 12, 2020 . August 31, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190831153539/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bea/article/80244-bookexpo-2019-tochi-onyebuchi-channels-rage-and-hope.html . live .
    13. Abron, Dawn. 2017, 'Onyebuchi, Tochi. Beasts Made of Night', School Library Journal, vol. 63, no. 7, via EBSCO, viewed 23 June 2022.
    14. "Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi." Time.com. October 2020:N.PAG. via EBSCO. Accessed June 23, 2022.
    15. Carbone, E 2019, 'Oneybechi, Tochi. War Girls', School Library Journal, vol. 65, no. 7. via EBSCO, viewed 23 June 2022.
    16. News: Meyer . Petra . January 26, 2020 . 'This Isn't New': Questions For Tochi Onyebuchi, Author Of Riot Baby . en . . February 12, 2020 . February 12, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200212132857/https://www.npr.org/2020/01/26/798237707/this-isnt-new-questions-for-tochi-onyebuchi-author-of-riot-baby . live .
    17. Web site: 2021-01-26. Tochi Onyebuchi's Riot Baby Awarded 2021 American Library Association Alex Award. 2021-10-15. Brittle Paper. en-US. October 15, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211015230241/https://brittlepaper.com/2021/01/tochi-onyebuchis-riot-baby-wins-2021-american-library-association-alex-award/. live.
    18. Web site: Templeton. Molly. 2021-09-20. Announcing the 2021 Ignyte Awards Winners!. 2021-10-15. Tor.com. en-US. October 15, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211015230241/https://www.tor.com/2021/09/20/announcing-the-2021-ignyte-awards-winners/. live.
    19. Web site: 2021 Hugo Awards. January 2021. August 9, 2021. May 6, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210506205231/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2021-hugo-awards/. live.
    20. News: Markovits . Benjamin . 2022-01-25 . They Left a Broken U.S. for Outer Space. Now They're Coming Back. . en-US . 15 . The New York Times Sunday Book Review . 2022-03-21 . 0362-4331 . March 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220321143708/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/books/review/tochi-onyebuchi-goliath.html . live .
    21. Web site: VanDenburgh . Barbara . 5 books not to miss: John Darnielle's 'Devil House,' new Danya Kukafka thriller . 2022-03-21 . USA TODAY . en-US . March 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220321143919/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/01/22/john-darnielle-devil-house-danya-kukafka-thriller-new-books/6601522001/ . live .
    22. Web site: January 2022 . Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi . 2022-06-23 . Publishers Weekly . October 10, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221010163026/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250782953 . live .
    23. Web site: Coleman . Christian A. . January 23, 2020 . Interview: Tochi Onyebuchi . February 12, 2020 . Lightspeed Magazine . January 29, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200129130005/http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-tochi-onyebuchi/ . live .
    24. Web site: April 2021 . (S)kinfolk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah by Tochi Onyebuchi . 2022-06-23 . www.publishersweekly.com . October 10, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221010163023/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780999431696 . live .
    25. Web site: Tabu . Hannibal . 2021-02-27 . Marvel Voices: Legacy #1 Review: A True Treasure . 2022-06-23 . Bleeding Cool News And Rumors . en . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623220743/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-voices-legacy-1-review-a-true-treasure/ . live .
    26. Web site: Writer Tochi Onyebuchi on T'Challa's Origins and 'Black Panther Legends' . 2021-10-15 . Marvel Entertainment . en . October 15, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211015230242/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/tochi-onyebuchi-black-panther-legends-interview . live .
    27. Web site: Terror . Jude . 2021-10-08 . Black Panther Legends #1 Preview: Time For Another Origin Story . 2021-10-15 . Bleeding Cool News And Rumors . en . October 15, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211015230242/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/black-panther-legends-1-preview-time-for-another-origin-story/ . live .
    28. Web site: 2022-03-20 . Even Captain America Can't Escape Spider-Man's Most Ridiculous Meme . 2022-03-21 . ScreenRant . en-US . March 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220321151937/https://screenrant.com/spiderman-dinosaurs-meme-captain-america-villain/ . live .
    29. Web site: Terror . Jude . 2022-03-19 . Captains America Take on Elon Musk in Captain America #0 First Look . 2022-03-21 . Bleeding Cool News And Rumors . en . March 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220321152042/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/captains-america-take-on-elon-musk-in-captain-america-0-first-look/ . live .
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    32. Web site: 2021-10-12 . 'Call Of Duty: Vanguard' writers want the game to get two sequels . 2022-03-21 . NME . en-GB . August 9, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220809233031/https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/call-of-duty-vanguard-writers-want-the-game-to-get-two-sequels-3068653 . live .
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    54. Web site: Rebel Sisters by Tochi Onyebuchi: 9781984835062 . 2022-06-23 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623051216/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599377/rebel-sisters-by-tochi-onyebuchi/ . live .
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    73. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . 2020-08-29 . What Might It Look Like if a City Used an Algorithm to Pay Reparations? . 2022-06-23 . Slate Magazine . en . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623051210/https://slate.com/technology/2020/08/how-to-pay-reparations-short-story.html . live .
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    76. Web site: 2016-11-12 . From Harlem to Wakanda: on Luke Cage and Black Panther . 2022-06-23 . OUPblog . en . June 25, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625080734/https://blog.oup.com/2016/11/luke-cage-black-panther/ . live .
    77. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . 2018-02-27 . Homecoming: How Afrofuturism Bridges the Past and the Present . 2022-06-23 . Tor.com . en-US . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623200032/https://www.tor.com/2018/02/27/homecoming-how-afrofuturism-bridges-the-past-and-the-present/ . live .
    78. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . June 21, 2018 . The art of the drug deal: Kanye West, 'Daytona', and the exploitation of addiction . 2022-06-23 . racebaitr.com . May 28, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220528010416/https://racebaitr.com/2018/06/21/the-art-of-the-drug-deal-kanye-west-daytona-and-the-exploitation-of-addiction/ . live .
    79. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . September 2018 . Homo Duplex . 2022-06-23 . Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four 884 . en-US . July 1, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220701011018/https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/homo-duplex/ . live .
    80. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . 2019-06-10 . Invisible: Not seeing myself in any of my high school reading changed me more than you'd think. . 2022-06-23 . Slate Magazine . en . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623200241/https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/06/why-school-reading-lists-matter.html . live .
    81. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . 2019-06-19 . White Bears in Sugar Land: Juneteenth, Cages, and Afrofuturism . 2022-06-23 . Tor.com . en-US . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623200031/https://www.tor.com/2019/06/19/white-bears-in-sugar-land-juneteenth-cages-and-afrofuturism/ . live .
    82. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . 2019-08-26 . Select Difficulty . 2022-06-23 . Tor.com . en-US . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623200031/https://www.tor.com/2019/08/26/select-difficulty/ . live .
    83. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . 2019-10-15 . My Gift Was Memory: On Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer . 2022-06-23 . Tor.com . en-US . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623200241/https://www.tor.com/2019/10/15/my-gift-was-memory-on-ta-nehisi-coatess-the-water-dancer/ . live .
    84. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . 2019-10-21 . 30 Minutes Till Madness: Power and Male Derangement in The Wheel of Time . 2022-06-23 . Tor.com . en-US . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623200241/https://www.tor.com/2019/10/21/30-minutes-till-madness-power-and-male-derangement-in-the-wheel-of-time/ . live .
    85. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . 2020-01-21 . 'Where in your affidavit does it say you're Black?': Why Worldbuilding Can't Neglect Race . 2022-06-23 . Tor.com . en-US . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623200032/https://www.tor.com/2020/01/21/where-in-your-affidavit-does-it-say-youre-black-why-worldbuilding-cant-neglect-race/ . live .
    86. Web site: Tochi . Onyebuchi . 2020-04-08 . Why war stories could reinjure those affected . 2022-06-23 . Oxford University Press Blog . en . June 23, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623200242/https://blog.oup.com/2020/04/why-war-stories-reinjure-those-affected/ . live .
    87. Web site: Onyebuchi . Tochi . 2020-06-01 . I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest . 2022-06-23 . Tor.com . en-US . June 28, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220628181213/https://www.tor.com/2020/06/01/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream-the-duty-of-the-black-writer-during-times-of-american-unrest/ . live .
    88. Web site: 2020-12-08 . Fine Weather, Isn't It? . 2022-06-23 . SFWA . en-US . July 5, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220705065727/https://www.sfwa.org/2020/12/08/fine-weather-isnt-it/ . live .

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