Tiphanie Yanique

Tiphanie Yanique is a novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. She is the author of the poetry collection Wife, which won the 2016 Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s 2016 Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection; the novel Land of Love and Drowning, which won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, the Phillis Wheatley Award for Pan-African Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award; a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, which won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation's 5Under35; and the novel Monster in the Middle. Tiphanie is from the Virgin Islands. She grew up in the Hospital Ground neighborhood in St. Thomas. She lives now with her family in Atlanta where she is a tenured associate professor at Emory University.

Tiphanie served as a judge for the 2022 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.