Tess Gunty

Prize-winning novelist

Tess Gunty is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her debut novel, Death in Her Hand, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2022. Gunty's work has been widely praised for its literary merit and exploration of themes such as identity, class, and social justice. She graduated from Yale University and began her writing career in the 2010s. Gunty's work has been published in nume...