Tiffany McDaniel 

Tiffany
McDaniel

Tiffany McDaniel is an Ohio native whose writing is inspired by the rolling hills and buckeye woods of the land she knows. A poet and a visual artist, her debut novel, The Summer That Melted Everything, won The Guardian’s 2016 Not the Booker Prize award. Betty, her second novel, was an international bestseller.

Tiffany McDaniel is an Ohio native whose writing is inspired by the rolling hills and buckeye woods of the land she knows. A poet and a visual artist, her debut novel, The Summer That Melted Everything, won The Guardian’s 2016 Not the Booker Prize award. Betty, her second novel, was an international bestseller.

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