Tessa Fontaine

Tessa Fontaine is a horror fiction novelist and memoirist best known for her memoir The Electric Woman. She was raised outside San Francisco and went to the University of Alabama for her MFA before attending the University of Utah for her doctorate. In 2012, she received graduate departmental awards at the University of Alabama for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Fontaine has been the winner of the First Year Teaching Award, the Academic Fellowship at the University of Utah, The Truman Capote Award, The National Alumni Fellowship at the University of Alabama, and the Boone Fellowship. She has also been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Writing by Writers, and The Taft Nicholson Center among others. She has taught summer journeys for the New York Times at the Universities of Utah and Alabama and in prisons in Utah and Alabama.