TIPHANIE YANIQUE
Tiphanie Yanique is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, the Kore Press Fiction Prize, The Academy of American Poets Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship in writing and the Boston Review Fiction Prize. She is the winner of the 2010 Rona Jaffe Prize in Fiction. Her fiction, poetry or essays can be found in the Best African American Fiction, Transition Magazine, American Short Fiction, The London Magazine, Prism International, Callaloo, and other journals and anthologies. She has had residencies with Bread Loaf, Callaloo, Squaw Valley and the Cropper Foundation for Caribbean Writers. Yanique is a professor of Creative Writing and Caribbean Literature at Drew University. She is from the Virgin Islands and lives most of the year in Brooklyn, New York.
Her short story "Oakland Gomorrah" appears in the May 2013 issue of The Drum and appeared in print originally in AGNI Number 77, in the spring of 2013.
Her short story "Oakland Gomorrah" appears in the May 2013 issue of The Drum and appeared in print originally in AGNI Number 77, in the spring of 2013.
