Tess Gunty is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed and bestselling novelist.
Her debut novel, “The Rabbit Hutch,” is a New York Times Bestseller and the recipient of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction. It has been translated into a dozen languages. The novel also received the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. “The Rabbit Hutch” was named one of 12 Essential Reads by The New Yorker and a best book of the year by: The New York Times, People, TIME, Oprah Daily, the Chicago Tribune, NPR and others. Tess is the youngest recipient of the National Book Award for fiction since Philip Roth won in 1960.
Tess is a Writer in Residence in the Creative Writing Program at NYU, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate students. She lives between Brooklyn and upstate New York.
