Pacific's Visiting Writers Presents: Author Talk and Q&A with Tiphanie Yanique

Join Pacific University's Visiting Writers series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 8 for an author talk and Q&A with Tiphanie Yanique — poet, novelist, and winner of numerous awards.

Yanique is the author of the poetry collection, Wife, which won the 2016 Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s 2016 Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection. "Of course, the right response to any creative don't is always to try to do it, but do it well (and by well, I mean with love, with authority, with trepidation, with hope),” said Yanique.

Her 2014 novel, Land of Love and Drowning, won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, the Phillis Wheatley Award for Pan-African Literature, and was listed by NPR as one of the Best Book of 2014. 

A Book Page review: "Yanique’s vivid writing, echoing Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez, builds a whole world within its language and cadence."

Among numerous other awards, Yanique won the Bocas Award for Caribbean Fiction, 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. 

Visit her website to purchase books and learn more about her.

To register for free and get the Zoom link, please email: PacificVisitingWriters@gmail.com.