Tayari Jones has written for McSweeney’s, The New York Times, and The Believer.
Her first novel, Leaving Atlanta, received best of the year mentions from the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Creative Loafing.
The Untelling won a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award, the Lillian C. Smith Award from the Southern Regional Council and was a Target Breakout Book. Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa, is a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, and serves on the MFA faculty at Rutgers University.
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