Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia where she spent most of her childhood with the exception of the one year she and her family spent in Nigeria, West Africa. Although she has not lived in her hometown for over a decade, much of her writing centers on the urban south. “Although I now live in the northeast,” she explains, “my imagination lives in Atlanta.”

Tayari Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Currently, she is the Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence at George Washington University. Starting in the fall of 2007, she will be an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, Newark campus.

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