Indiana Review 2008 Fiction Prize
Final Judge, Tayari Jones

Winner:
"New York 1, Tel Aviv 0"
Shelly Oria
New York, NY

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. She has written two novels, Leaving Atlanta (2002) and The Untelling (2005), and is a graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University.

We offer our thanks to all who contributed to the success of the 2008 Indiana Review Fiction Prize. All entrants receive a year's subscription to IR, beginning with our Summer 2009 issue.