Tony Tulathimutte Explained

Tony Tulathimutte
Birth Date:	September 1, 1983
Birth Place:	Springfield, Massachusetts

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]

Early life

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]

Career

Currently he is the lead instructor at CRIT, a creative writing workshop based in Brooklyn, NY.^[4]

Works

Novel

• Private Citizens (2016)

Collection

• Rejection (2024)

Short fiction

• "Composite Body" in The Cimarron Review
• "Inheritance" in The Threepenny Review
• Brains in The Malahat Review
• "The Man Who Wasn't Male" in Wag's Revue
• "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" in The Threepenny Review
• "The Feminist" in n+1
• "Ahegao" in The Paris Review

Nonfiction

• Remote Research (2010), co-author with Nate Bolt

Awards

• Whiting Award in Fiction, 2017
• O. Henry Award, 2008

References

1. http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/winners/ The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008
2. Book: Tulathimutte, Tony. Private Citizens: A Novel. 2016-02-09. William Morrow Paperbacks. 9780062399106. English.
3. Web site: Tony Tulathimutte Archive . 2017-07-07 . User Experience Magazine . en.
4. Web site: The Instructor . CRIT . 21 January 2022.

External links

• Official website