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She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Gray currently lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 2021, it was announced that the book would be adapted into a feature film by Netflix, with Clubhouse Pictures producing. Beasts of Prey debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestseller list. The story takes place in a Pan-African inspired world and follows two Black teens named Koffi and Ekon as they venture into a magical jungle to find and hunt down an ancient monster. īeasts of Prey, the first installment in the eponymous trilogy, was published on September 28, 2021. In July 2020, Gray sold Beasts of Prey and two accompanying books to Putnam Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Gray began writing her debut novel, Beasts of Prey, in May 2015, following her graduation. With Beasts of Prey, the first book of a planned trilogy, debut author Ayana Gray builds a world that mirrors the pan-African reality: ethnic groups divided against other groups by war, and from within by disruptions to their previous relationships to their origin stories, lanugages, and cultural identities and people impacted by generations of. Gray received her Bachelor of Arts in political science and African and African-American Studies from the University of Arkansas in 2015. Gray was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas with her family at age thirteen, attending Pulaski Academy. Her 2021 debut novel Beasts of Prey was a New York Times bestseller. Ayana Gray is an American author of young adult fiction.

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