Justin Tussing

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Justin Tussing is an American writer. Tussing was a graduate of the 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 in Provincetown, 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 Alpan 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.

"The Best People in the World," was awarded the Oregon Ken Kesey award for book of the year 2006

Tussing currently teaches creative writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.