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Tiphanie Yanique

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Tiphanie Yanique is the author of How to Escape from a Leper Colony. She has won the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize a Fulbright in Creative Writing and an Academy of American Poet's Prize. Her work has also appeared in Callaloo, Transition Magazine, American Short Fiction, & the London Magazine. She is an assistant professor of creative writing & Caribbean Literature at Drew University. The Boston Globe listed her as one of sixteen cultural figures to watch out for in 2010."


Average rating: 3.87 · 92 ratings · 25 reviews · 2 distinct works
How to Escape from a Leper ...
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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
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More of Tiphanie's books…
“Despite her light skin, despite the obviousness that more of her ancestors had owned slaves than had been them, how could she lose? We're open like that. We like to know that people love us; we don't care how they look.”
Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony

“Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.”
Tiphanie Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony

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