Tiphanie Yanique
author of the award-winning poetry collection, Wife
About Tiphanie
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the award-winning poetry collection, Wife; the award-winning novel, Land of Love and Drowning; and a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, for which she was a 5 Under 35 honoree from the National Book Foundation. She has additionally been awarded the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her most recent book is Monster in the Middle.
Appearances
Every time Tiphanie Yanique has taken the stage with House of SpeakEasy.
College Readiness after-school workshop
Union Settlement
Tiphanie led a College Readiness after-school workshop for SpeakTogether at Union Settlement in East Harlem on January 9, 2019.
Live for the Moment
Edward R. Murrow High School
Tiphanie performed at a SpeakTogether student matinee at Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn, on May 16, 2018, speaking on the theme, "Live for the Moment".