Indiana Writer: Tess Gunty

 Thanks to the Brisbane Times, I learned of Tess Gunty. I subscribe to its books newsletter (and which I recommend highly). There is a short review which ends with:

There are shades of David Foster Wallace in Gunty’s consummately digressive style, her labile sense of tragicomic absurdity, and her ability to wrest the sublime from seemingly banal corners of human experience. It will be fascinating to see how her career develops as she hones her craft and gives her invention freer hand.

Okay, that sounds like something that needs reading. 

She has a website here, and she is an Indiana native:

Born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, Tess holds a B.A. in English with an Honor’s Concentration in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. She spent her sophomore year in Angers, France, studying French language and culture at l’Université Catholique de l’Ouest. Back at Notre Dame, Tess tutored undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty at the University Writing Center. Her play, Taxidermy, won an ND Theater Now Award. During her senior year, the English Department nominated Tess for four awards; her poetry collection Radish Beds won the Ernest Sandeen Award.

Even if she now lives in Los Angeles, what she has done so far is very impressive.

sch 10/8/22