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Tessa Fontaine is the acclaimed author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, A New York Times Editors' Choice; Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and best book of 2018 from Southern Living, Amazon, Refinery29 and The New York Post.
The Red Grove, her debut novel, was named a best book by Amazon Editors’ and People Magazine and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.
Other writing can be found in Outside, The New York Times, Glamour, AGNI, The Believer, People, LitHub, Creative Nonfiction, and more. Raised outside San Francisco, Tessa is a former professor and has taught in jails and prisons. She co-founded and teaches the Accountability Workshops with writer and pal Annie Hartnett, and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her daughter, goofy dog and sassy cat.
Raised outside San Francisco, Tessa got her MFA from the University of Alabama, and then 4/5 of a PhD from the University of Utah. It's a long story. She's received awards and fellowships from Tin House, The Sewanee Writers' Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Taft Nicholson Center, Writing by Writers, and Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Tessa has guided students on the New York Times summer journeys, and founded Salt Lake City’s Writers in the Schools program.
Tessa loves redwood trees, ghost stories, and goats. Every year on her birthday, as a gift to herself, she eats unlimited Doritos.
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