- Justin Tussing
Justin Tussing is an American writer. Tussing was a graduate of the
University of Iowa 's Writer's Workshop, where he held a Teaching/Writing Fellowship. He later became a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center inProvincetown, Massachusetts . His first published stories were "The Artificial Cloud," published in "TriQuarterly" (later reprinted in "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection"), and "The Tiny Man," published in "Third Coast"; both stories appeared in the spring of 2000.In 2005, Tussing was selected, along with
Uwem Akpan and Karen Russell, to appear in the "New Yorker"'s annual Début Fiction issue. His first novel, "The Best People in the World,"was published in April 2006 and was awarded the 2006 Ken Kesey Award for the Novel.From 2005-2007, Tussing taught English literature and creative writing at
Lewis & Clark College inPortland, Oregon . Currently he is full-time faculty at theUniversity of Southern Maine . [ [http://www.usm.maine.edu/eng/ftfac.htm English Department Full-time Faculty at USM ] ]Books
* "The Best People in the World" (
2006 )References
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