Yasmin Angoe

Yasmin Angoe is an action and psychological suspense thriller author, Library of Virginia People’s Choice Fiction Award finalist, and Anthony-award nominee for Her Name is Knight and Not What She Seems. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and received the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime. The Nena Knight series is also optioned for a TV/Film adaptation.

Her Name Is Knight has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, OprahDaily.com, POPSUGAR, Nerd Daily, the Washington Independent Review of Books, The Guardian, and other platforms. Not What She Seems was a 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Mystery & Thriller.

Yasmin is an active member of several organizations such as Crime Writers of Color, Sisters in Crime International, Author’s Guild, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, The Crime Writer’s Association, and the Women’s National Book Association.

Yasmin is a former English teacher and instructional coach, and lives in South Carolina with her husband and their kids.

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