Tiphanie Yanique is the award-winning author of the novels “Land of Love and Drowning” and “Monster in the Middle,” the 2023 Great Reads from Great Places U.S. Virgin Islands book selection for adults, as well as the poetry collection “Wife.” Yanique was the winner of the Center for Fiction’s 2014 First Novel Prize and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a Fulbright scholarship. Yanique’s short fiction has been published in The New Yorker and anthologized in “The Best American Short Stories 2020.” Originally from the U.S. Virgin Islands, she now lives in Atlanta, where she is a professor at Emory University. Yanique is a contributor to “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice and Skill,” which will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival.
Selected Works at the Library of Congress
Appearances at the 2023 National Book Festival
- Behind the Scenes With Black Writers with Jericho Brown, Camille T. Dungy and Tiphanie Yanique
- Tiphanie Yanique Book Signing