Justin Tussing is an American writer. Tussing was a graduate of the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 col ...

's Writer's Workshop, where he held a Teaching/Writing Fellowship. He later became a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in

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. His first published stories were "The Artificial Cloud," published in ''TriQuarterly'' (later reprinted in ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection''), and "The Tiny Man," published in ''Third Coast''; both stories appeared in the spring of 2000. In 2005, Tussing was selected, along with Uwem Akpan and Karen Russell, to appear in the ''New Yorkers annual Début Fiction issue. His first novel, ''The Best People in the World'', was published in April 2006 and was awarded the 2006 Ken Kesey Award for the Novel. From 2005-2007, Tussing taught English literature and creative writing at

Lewis & Clark College Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Originally chartered in 1867 as the Albany Collegiate Institute in Albany, Oregon, the college was relocated to Portland in 1938 and in 1942 adopted the name Lewis & C ...

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. Currently he is an associate professor of English and director of the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing at the

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. His second novel, ''Vexation Lullaby,'' will be published April 12, 2016.

Books

* ''The Best People in the World'' (2006) * ''Vexation Lullaby'' (2016)

References

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* Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Lewis & Clark College faculty Novelists from Oregon Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American male novelists {{US-novelist-stub