Arts & Letters Alumni: Tess Gunty '15 on Her Creative Writing Evolution

Описание: Novelist Tess Gunty '15 is the winner of the 2022 National Book Award for fiction for her debut novel, The Rabbit Hutch.

Born and raised in South Bend, Gunty majored in English at the University of Notre Dame with a concentration in creative writing. In the novel's acknowledgments, Gunty thanks Notre Dame faculty Joyelle McSweeney, Orlando Menes, Steve Tomasula, and Anne García-Romero.

“My writing professors from Notre Dame uprooted my literary preconceptions and planted far better ideas in their place,” Gunty wrote. “I cherished their generosity as an undergraduate, and I continue to cherish it now.”

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