Fiction Craft Talk by Sams Chair Tiphanie Yanique

Prof. Tiphanie Yanique, Mercer’s 2024 Ferrol A. Sams Distinguished Chair of English, will give a craft talk titled “Realisms: Resisting White Supremacy to Develop Character in Fiction and in Yourself” on Mar. 27 at 4 p.m. in CSC 1. This lecture is free and open to the public.

Tiphanie Yanique is a poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer from the U.S. Virgin Islands. Her poetry collection Wife won the Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection. Her novels and short story collections include Monster in the Middle, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards and on numerous best of the year lists, Land of Love and Drowning, which won the Phillis Wheatley Award for Pan-African Literature and was a finalist for the Orion Award in Environmental Literature, and How to Escape from a Leper Colony. In addition, she is author of the picture book I Am the Virgin Islands.