Dubbed by The Los Angeles Times “a bard of the modern South”, Tayari Jones confronts issues of race, family, and criminal justice reform in her novels. Her instant New York Times bestseller An American Marriage was an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as in his year-end roundup. The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), Aspen Words Prize, and an NAACP Image Award.
Jones, a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, United States Artist Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Her third novel, Silver Sparrow, was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016.
Jones’s newest novel Kin is about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
