Yasmin Angoe

Yasmin Angoe is the author of the critically acclaimed and Anthony-nominated Her Name is Knight of the Nena Knight trilogy and her standalones Not What She Seems and Behind These Four Walls, and her first YA fantasy horror She Drinks the Light. Yasmin is a first-generation Ghanaian American and was a finalist for the Library of Virginia’s People Choice, Goodreads Choice Award nominee, and listed on Maria Shriver’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026. She received the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award from Sisters in Crime. Reviews of Yasmin’s work can be found in The New York Times, OprahDaily.com, Deadline, The Guardian, PopSugar, and Woman’s World. When not writing, Yasmin works as a developmental and lives in South Carolina with her family, often dreaming up ways to commit murder...on the page.