Tony Tulathimutte

Tony Tulathimutte (born September 1, 1983) is an American fiction writer. His short story "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" received an O. Henry Award in 2008. In 2016, he published his debut novel Private Citizens, which was called "the first great millennial novel" by New York.

Early life
Raised in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Tulathimutte is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and formerly worked as a writer and researcher on user experience topics.

Career
Currently he is the lead instructor at CRIT, a creative writing workshop based in Brooklyn, NY.

Novel

 * Private Citizens (2016)

Collection

 * Rejection (2024)

Short fiction

 * "Composite Body" in The Cimarron Review
 * "Inheritance" in The Threepenny Review
 * Brains in The Malahat Review
 * "The Man Who Wasn't Male" in Wag's Revue
 * "Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska" in The Threepenny Review
 * "The Feminist" in n+1
 * "Ahegao" in The Paris Review

Nonfiction

 * Remote Research (2010), co-author with Nate Bolt

Awards

 * Whiting Award in Fiction, 2017
 * O. Henry Award, 2008