TAYARI JONES is the internationally bestselling author of five novels, including An American Marriage, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019, the Aspen Words Prize, and an NAACP Image Award. An Oprah’s Book Club Selection, it appeared on Barack Obama’s
summer reading list, was published in two dozen countries, and has sold over 350,000 copies in the UK alone. Jones is the recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a United States
Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and a Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. She is currently professor of Creative Writing at Emory University and an Andrew Dickson WhiteProfessor-at-Large at Cornell University. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.