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  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. “Although I now live in Illinois,” she explains, “my imagination lives in Atlanta.” Her first novel, Leaving Atlanta, is a coming of age story set during the city’s infamous child murders of 1979-81.

Tayari Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English at The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches creative writing. Her second novel, The Untelling, published in April 2005, is the winner of the Lillian C. Smith Award for New Voices.





    

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