Tiphanie Yanique

marlene lopez

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.