Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and urbanist. Her memoir, Aftershocks, was selected as a best book of 2021 by over a dozen publications, including Time, Vogue, Esquire, and the BBC. Barack Obama named it as one of his favorite books of the year and it was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Owusu is a winner of the 2019 Whiting Award in nonfiction, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Orion, Granta, The Paris Review Daily, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Bon Appétit, Travel + Leisure, among other publications.