Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including Silver Sparrow,The Untelling, and Leaving Atlanta.

Jones holds degrees fromSpelman College, Arizona State University, and the University of Iowa. She serves on the MFA faculty at Rutgers and blogs on writing.

She livesin Brooklyn .An Associate Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-NewarkUniversity, she is spending the 2017-18 academic year as the Shearing Fellowfor Distinguished Writers at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black MountainInstitute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.