Téa Obreht and Brenda Shaughnessy

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Téa Obreht is the internationally bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife, which won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her second novel, Inland, was an instant bestseller, won the Southwest Book Award, and was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and Zoetrope: All-Story, among many others. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, she now lives in Wyoming.

Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Tanya and The Octopus Museum, as well as Liquid Flesh: New and Selected Poems (U.K.). She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University—Newark.