Discipline: Literature – fiction

Tyriek White

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Oxford, MS
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

Tyriek White is the author of We Are A Haunting (Astra House, 2023), winner of The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. The novel was also longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and a finalist of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction. In 2024, he was named a National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree.

White has received fellowships from Callaloo, New York State Writers Institute, and Key West Literary Seminar, among other honors. He is currently the media director of Lampblack Literary Foundation, which seeks to provide mutual aid and various resources to Black writers across the diaspora.

At MacDowell, he continued to work on a novel.

Portrait by Zoraya Lua

Studios

Calderwood

Tyriek White worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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