Téa Obreht

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC |  Téa Obreht is the author of two novels, The Tiger's Wife, which won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a 2011 National Book Award finalist and international bestseller; and Inland (Random House), named a Best Book of 2019 by The Guardian, Library Journal, The Washington Post, and the New York Public Library, and one of President Barack Obama's 2019 Summer Reading List selections. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading, and has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, Vogue, and Esquire. She was the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Fellowship from the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and has been named by The New Yorker and one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. Originally from Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, she grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, and now lives in New York City and teaches at Hunter College.