# Justin Tussing

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American writer

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**Justin Tussing** is an American writer. Tussing was a graduate of the [University of Iowa](/source/University_of_Iowa)'s Writer's Workshop, where he held a Teaching/Writing Fellowship. He later became a Fellow at the [Fine Arts Work Center](/source/Fine_Arts_Work_Center) in [Provincetown, Massachusetts](/source/Provincetown%2C_Massachusetts). His first published stories were "The Artificial Cloud," published in *TriQuarterly* (later reprinted in *The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection*), and "The Tiny Man," published in *Third Coast*; both stories appeared in the spring of 2000.

In 2005, Tussing was selected, along with [Uwem Akpan](/source/Uwem_Akpan) and Karen Russell, to appear in the *New Yorker'*s annual Début Fiction issue. His first novel, *The Best People in the World*, was published in April 2006 and was awarded the 2006 [Ken Kesey Award for the Novel](/source/Oregon_Book_Award).

From 2005-2007, Tussing taught English literature and creative writing at [Lewis & Clark College](/source/Lewis_%26_Clark_College) in [Portland, Oregon](/source/Portland%2C_Oregon). Currently he is an associate professor of English and director of the [Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing](/source/Stonecoast_MFA_Program_in_Creative_Writing) at the [University of Southern Maine](/source/University_of_Southern_Maine).[1]

His second novel, *Vexation Lullaby,* will be published April 12, 2016.

## Books

- *The Best People in the World* (2006)

- *Vexation Lullaby* (2016)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Justin Tussing | Department of English | University of Southern Maine"](https://usm.maine.edu/eng/justin-tussing). *usm.maine.edu*. Retrieved 2015-12-15.

## External links

- [Justin Tussing](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Justin_Tussing) at the [Internet Speculative Fiction Database](/source/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database)

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