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 Tulathimutte at the 2016 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | September 1, 1983 Springfield, Massachusetts |
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Tony Tulathimutte (born September 1, 1983) is an American fiction writer. His short story "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" received an O. Henry Award in 2008. [1] In 2016, he published his debut novel Private Citizens, which was called "the first great millennial novel" by New York . [2]
Raised in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Tulathimutte is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and formerly worked as a writer and researcher on user experience topics. [3]
Currently he is the lead instructor at CRIT, a creative writing workshop based in Brooklyn, NY. [4]
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