Tessa Fontaine
Tessa Fontaine is the author of THE ELECTRIC WOMAN: A MEMOIR IN DEATH-DEFYING ACTS (FSG 2018), a New York Times Editors’ Choice; Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and best book of the year by Southern Living, Refinery29, Amazon Editors’, and The New York Post.
THE RED GROVE (FSG 2024), her debut novel, was named a best book by Amazon Editors’ and People Magazine, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.
Other writing can be found in Outside, The New York Times, Glamour, AGNI, The Believer, People, LitHub, Creative Nonfiction, and more. Raised outside San Francisco, Tessa has an MFA from the University of Alabama and founded Salt Lake City’s Writers in the Schools program. She has taught at Warren Wilson College and in jails and prisons around the country. She has received awards and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Writing by Writers, and more. Along with writer and pal Annie Hartnett, she co-founded and runs the Accountability Workshops, and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her daughter, silly dog and sassy cat.
