Angela Flournoy is an American writer born in Southern California in 1985. Her debut novel, The Turner House, received significant critical recognition, winning the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and earning a shortlist position for the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel was also shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Flournoy's work has been widely recognized in the literary community. The Turner House was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, and in the same year, she was honored as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. She was nominated for this honor by her former teacher, acclaimed writer ZZ Packer.