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| | | | | Disquiet 2020 Guest Author Tayari Jones is the author four novels, most recently An American Marriage. Published in 2018, An American Marriage is an Oprah's Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama's summer reading list as well as his end of the year roundup. The novel was awarded the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. With over 500,000 copies in print domestically, it has been published in two dozen countries. Jones, a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Her third novel, Silver Sparrow was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016. Jones is an A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
Check out Jones' interview about An American Marriage in The Paris Review. | | | Disquiet 2020 Fiction Faculty Gabriel Bump's debut novel, Everywhere You Don't Belong, will be out in February, 2020. Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in Slam Magazine, the Huffington Post, Springhouse Journal, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts--Amherst and lives and teaches in Buffalo, New York.
Check out an interview with Bump about his debut in Publisher's Weekly.
| | "The very best program of its type in the world: intense, humane, wildly energetic, with its heart in exactly the right place."
– George Saunders | | | | | | | | |
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