Tiphanie Yanique

Tiphanie Yanique, is the author of the short story collection, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, winner of the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for fiction. Her debut novel, the Land of Love and Drowning (Riverhead/Penguin, 2014) won the 2014 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and BookPage listed her as one of the 14 Women writers to watch out for in 2014.