Tony Tulathimutte (born September 1, 1983) is an American fiction writer. His short story "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" received an

O. Henry Award The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...

in 2008. In 2016, he published his

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''Private Citizens'', which was called "the first great Millennial novel" by ''

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''. Tulathimutte has bachelor's and master's degrees in

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from

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. Raised in

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, he is a graduate of the

Iowa Writers' Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Wri ...

, and formerly worked as a writer and researcher on user experience topics. Currently he is the lead instructor at CRIT, a creative writing workshop based in Brooklyn, NY.

Works

;Fiction
“Composite Body”
in ''

Cimarron Review ''The Cimarron Review'' is a major American literary journal published quarterly by the Oklahoma State University. It was founded in 1967, and its current editor is Lisa Lewis. The magazine has its headquarters in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Contributo ...

''
"Inheritance"
in ''

Threepenny Review ''The Threepenny Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1980. It is published in Berkeley, California, by founding editor Wendy Lesser. Maintaining a quarterly schedule (March, June, September, December), it offers fiction, memoirs, ...

''
"Brains"
novella in '' Malahat Review''
"The Man Who Wasn't Male"
in ''Wag's Revue''

in ''

''
"The Feminist"
in '' n+1''
"Ahegao"
in ''

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip ...

'' ;Nonfiction
''Remote Research'', co-author with Nate Bolt

Awards

Whiting Award in Fiction, 2017

O. Henry Award, 2008

First Place, Bocock-Guerard Fiction Prize, 2004

References

External links

Official website
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