Tomi Adeyemi

Tomi Adeyemi is an American novelist and creative writing coach, born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Nigeria and raised in Chicago.

She studied English literature at Harvard, then received a fellowship to study West African mythology and culture in Salvador, Brazil, which inspired her debut, Children of Blood and Bone (2018), the first book of the Legacy of Orïsha series. It debuted at number one on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover list.

The series continued with Children of Virtue and Vengeance (2019) and Children of Anguish and Anarchy (2024). Her awards include the Andre Norton Award and the Lodestar Award, and she was named to TIME's 100 most influential people in 2020. The Siren, a standalone dark academia novel, was published in September 2026.