Téa Obreht’s first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, will be published by The Dial Press in 2011. Her fiction debut - an excerpt of The Tiger’s Wife in The New Yorker - was followed by a short story in the summer 2009 fiction issue of The Atlantic. Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before eventually immigrating to the United States in 1997. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Téa received her M.F.A. in Fiction from the Creative Writing Program at Cornell University in 2009.