Tiphanie Yanique is a novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. Her new novel, Monster in the Middle, is out now.
Included in Boston Globe’s “Best Books of 2021”
Tiphanie Yanique’s works include:
Poetry
Wife, winner of the 2016 Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s 2016 Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection
Novel
Land of Love and Drowning, winner of 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, and was listed by NPR as one of the Best Book of 2014. Land of Love and Drowning was also a finalist for the Orion Award in Environmental Literature and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.
Monster in the Middle is out October 19, 2021.
Short Stories
How to Escape from a Leper Colony, listed as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5Under35.
Awards
Bocas Award for Caribbean Fiction, a Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship and an Academy of American Poet’s Prize. She has been listed by the Boston Globe as one of the sixteen cultural figures to watch out for and her writing has been published in the New York Times, Best African American Fiction, The Wall Street Journal, American Short Fiction and other places.
BOOKS
Award winning poetry collection.
Winner of the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and Winner of the Forward/Felix Dennis Prize
Novel
Winner of The American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award for Considerable Literary Talent and winner of the 2014 Flaherty Dunnan First Novel Prize.
Short stories
“I reached the end of How to Escape from a Leper Colony with the exhilarating sense that I had been on the best kind of journey—not, finally, to the Virgin Islands nor Trinidad nor Houston nor London, but to the imagination of a wonderfully talented young writer who has many more stories to tell.”
- Margot Livesey, The Boston Globe