Tiphanie Yanique

Professor of English and Creative Writing

English and Creative Writing

Office: Callaway N208 - on leave Spring 2024

Phone: 404-727-4683

Email: tiphanie.yanique@emory.edu

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Biography

Tiphanie Yanique is the author most recently of the novel, Monster in the Middle, which was on numerous best of the year lists.  Monster in the Middle was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, the Townsend Prize and was selected as a Library of Congress Great Read for 2023.  Prof. Yanique is also the author of the poetry collection, Wife, which won the Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection, the novel, Land of Love and Drowning, which won the 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.  Land of Love and Drowning was also a finalist for the Orion Award in Environmental Literature and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. She is the author of a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, which won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation's 5Under35 and the Bocas Prize in Fiction.  Her writing has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, an Academy of American Poet's Prize and two Fulbright Scholarships.

Prof. Yanique is also an outspoken activist on behalf of the Caribbean, having appeared on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, and published an op-ed in The New York Times on the US response to hurricanes in the Caribbean. Prof. Yanique is a member of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective, a group of activists, academics and artists who do decolonial work in and about archives.  Prof. Yanique is a passionate teacher who is the winner of an Excellence in Teaching Award. 

 

Prof. Yanique’s research expertise include

Character Development in Fiction

Structure in Prose

Poetry in the Archive

Decolonial Creative Practice

Eco-poetics & Writing the Natural Environment

Caribbean Literatures

Black Atlantic Literatures

Post-Colonial and Decolonial Literatures

 

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a35482634/i-hoped-my-kids-first-march-would-be-carnival-instead-it-was-for-black-lives-matter/

https://poets.org/poem/home-2

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/gods-caravan

 

 

Publications

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

I Am the Virgin Islands

I Am the Virgin Islands

Land of Love and Drowning

Land of Love and Drowning

Wife

Wife


 Monster in the Middle

 

 

 

 

 

Monster in the Middle