Indiana Review's 2008 Fiction Prize Guidelines
$1000 Honorarium and Publication
Final Judge: 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. She has written two novels, Leaving Atlanta (2002) and The Untelling (2005), and is a graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University.

POSTMARK DEADLINE: OCT. 15, 2008
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