1. Tochi Onyebuchi was born on October 4,1987 and is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer.
22 Facts About Tochi Onyebuchi
1. 2.
Tochi Onyebuchi is known for incorporating civil rights and Afrofuturism into his stories and novels.
3.
Tochi Onyebuchi's parents were Nigerian Igbo immigrants Elizabeth Ihuegbu and Nnamdi Onyebuchi, who was a restaurant manager.
4.
Tochi Onyebuchi's family lived in New Britain, Connecticut, until 1998, when his father died at the age of 39.
5.
Tochi Onyebuchi attended the Choate Rosemary Hall school in Wallingford, Connecticut.
6.
Tochi Onyebuchi wrote extensively growing up and attempted to sell his first novel in high school.
7.
Tochi Onyebuchi attended Yale University, graduating with a degree in political science in 2009.
8.
Tochi Onyebuchi earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in screenwriting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
9.
Tochi Onyebuchi received a master's degree in Global Economic Law from Instituts d'etudes politiques in France.
10.
Tochi Onyebuchi then attended Columbia Law School, receiving a Juris Doctor degree in 2015.
11.
Tochi Onyebuchi worked in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office and was an investigator for New York City's Legal Aid Society where he assisted prisoners from Rikers Island.
12.
Tochi Onyebuchi 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.
13.
Tochi Onyebuchi began writing novels and submitting them to publishers when he was in high school.
14.
Tochi Onyebuchi's first published novel, Beasts Made of Night, was written for young adult readers and is set in a mythical dystopian world inspired by Nigerian folklore.
15.
Tochi Onyebuchi published a sequel, Crown of Thunder, in 2018.
16.
Tochi Onyebuchi then wrote the War Girls young adult series, which includes War Girls in 2019 and Rebel Sisters in 2020.
17.
Tochi 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.
18.
Tochi Onyebuchi started working on this novel before writing Beasts Made of Night.
19.
Tochi Onyebuchi's stories have appeared in several anthologies and Asimov's Science Fiction, Ideomancer, Lightspeed, Omenauna Magazine, and Uncanny Magazine.
20.
Tochi Onyebuchi's first comic was a Domino story for the anthology Marvel's Voices: Legacy.
21.
In 2021, Marvel announced that Tochi 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.
22.
In 2021, Tochi Onyebuchi was among the writers of Call Of Duty: Vanguard video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision.