“Tessa Fontaine is brilliant.”
—Alice Elliot Dark, author of Fellowship Point
“Unlike any other novel I’ve ever read.”
—Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World
Tessa Fontaine is the author of THE ELECTRIC WOMAN: A MEMOIR IN DEATH-DEFYING ACTS, a New York Times Editors' Choice; Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and best book of 2018 by Southern Living, Refinery29, Amazon Editors', and The New York Post.
THE RED GROVE, her debut novel, is forthcoming from FSG in May 2024.
Other writing can be found in Outside, The New York Times, Glamour, AGNI, The Believer, LitHub, Creative Nonfiction, and more. Raised outside San Francisco, Tessa is a former professor and has taught in jails and prisons for five years. She co-founded and teaches the Accountability Workshops with writer and pal Annie Hartnett, and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband, daughter, goofy dog and sassy cat.
“An assured debut that doesn’t shy away from the task of holding the ordinary and otherworldly in its hand, at once…I’m stunned by the beauty of Fontaine’s rhythms and images."
―Rachel Khong, The New York Times Book Review
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