Tiphanie Yanique

Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the award-winning novel Land of Love and Drowning , as well as the short story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony. Winner of the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel award, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Award and a Fulbright scholarship. Her short fiction has been published in The New Yorker and anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2020 . Originally from the Virgin Islands, she now lives...See more

Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the award-winning novel Land of Love and Drowning , as well as the short story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony. Winner of the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel award, and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Award and a Fulbright scholarship. Her short fiction has been published in The New Yorker and anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2020 . Originally from the Virgin Islands, she now lives in Atlanta, where she is a professor at Emory University. See less