Tony Tulathimutte (TOO-lah-tim-OO-tee) is the author of the novel Rejection, which was long-listed for the 2024 National Book Award and named a New York Times Best Book of the Year, and the 2016 novel Private Citizens, hailed by New York Magazine as “the first great millennial novel.” He has received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, and his writing appears in The Paris Review, n+1, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Playboy, and elsewhere.
Since 2017, Tony has run an independent writing program, CRIT, hosting small groups of emerging writers for twice-weekly workshops and craft lectures. He is Visiting Associate Professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop through Fall 2026.
Tony will offer his prose workshop “A Regular Workshop with an Above Average Emphasis on Style,” teach his craft session “Clean Writing,” and give an evening reading and Q&A.