Fictionaut Tayari Jones is one of the writers to win a 2008 United States Artist Fellowship, along with Jeff Chang, Joy Harjo, and Barry Hannah. Tayari’s first novel, Leaving Atlanta, is a coming-of-age story that centers on the Atlanta child murders of 1979–81 and won the 2003 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Untelling, traces the legacy of a fatal accident that haunts a family.
Tayari will be in Kampala, Uganda, to teach a writing workshop for woman’s writing group FEMRITE in January, and you can follow her blog. Here are Tayari’s answers to the Fictionaut Five.
If you weren’t a writer, how would you spend your time?
All my life, I’ve had a secret desire to be a hairdresser.
Which book do you wish you’d written?
Property by Valerie Martin.
Name one website you couldn’t live without.
Do social networking sites count? If so, twitter, twitter, twitter. Otherwise, Practicing Writing is my first stop in the morning. She knows where all the opportunities are and is kind enough to share.
What are you working on now?
A better question is what’s working on me, not the other way around. A new novel called The Silver Girl.
Whiskey or yoga?
Whiskey. And make it a double.
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