Tess Gunty
Tess Gunty (born 1993) is an American novelist.[2][3][4][5] Gunty was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana.[1][6] She graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts in English and from New York University with a Masters in Fine Arts degree in creative writing.[9][3] It received generally favorable reviews from critics.[10][11] The novel also received the inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.