Namwali Serpell

Namwali Serpell is a Professor of English at Harvard University. Her first monograph, a work of literary criticism, Seven Modes of Uncertainty, was published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. Her book of essays, Stranger Faces (Transit Books, 2020), was long listed for a Believer Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Her essay, “River of Time,” was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021, and “She’s Capital,” won the 2023 American Society of Magazine Editor’s Award for Reviews and Criticism.