Téa Obreht is a fiction writer. She’s the bestselling author of “The Tiger’s Wife,” winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and finalist for the National Book Award, and “Inland,” which won the Southwest Book Award. Obreht’s latest novel, “Morningside,” publishes in March 2024. Her work has appeared in “The Best American Short Stories,” The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and Zoetrope: All-Story, among others. From 2020 to 2022, Obreht was the Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Texas State University. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, she received the Rona Jaffe fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
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