Téa Obreht is the New York Times bestselling author of “The Tiger’s Wife,” a debut novel that won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a 2011 National Book Award finalist. Her writing has been published in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading, and has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s and The Atlantic, among other publications. She has been named by The New Yorker as one of the 20 best American fiction writers under 40, and she was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her most recent novel, “Inland” (Random House), is a historical fiction novel set in the drought-ridden Arizona Territory in 1893 and has been named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Time and Library Journal, among others. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Obreht now lives in New York and teaches at Hunter College.
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