Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American speculative fiction author who wrote the short-story collection Friday Black (2018) and his debut novel Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023).

[1] His non-fiction writing includes a foreword to How a Game Lives, a collection of critical essays by Jacob Geller.

[6][7] Adjei-Brenyah's debut book is a collection of 12 satirical short stories exploring many topics, including racism in modern-day America, consumerism, school shootings, and generational violence.

[2] Adjei-Brenyah's first novel is set in a dystopian America where imprisoned people have the choice to leave prison by joining a gladiatorial system called the "CAPE" or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment program where they take part in televised duels to the death as part of alliances called Chain Gangs.

[8] The book is a fictional novel but features many footnotes citing current laws and factual statistics about the incarceration system in the United States.