Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the poetry collection, Wife (Peepal Tree Press UK, 2015), winner of the 2016 Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the 2016 Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection. Her debut novel, Land of Love and Drowning (Riverhead Books, 2014), 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, among other honors. Her debut collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf Press, 2010) was a 2010 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree.
