Tiphanie Yanique

Tiphanie Yanique’s most recent book is the poetry collection Wife (Peepal Tree 2016). She is also the author of the novel Land of Love and Drowning (Riverhead, 2014) and a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf, 2010). Yanique, who hails from the Virgin Islands and is a professor at Emory University, has been recognized with a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Fullbright scholarship, an Academy of American Poets prize, a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” listing, and many other honors. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Best African American Fiction, the Wall Street Journal, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere.