Tissut’s research focuses on contemporary American literature, on aesthetics, exchanges between forms and media as well as on translation. She also translates American fiction and poetry into French, and takes part in collective translations from French into American English. She was co-organizer of the 2012 &NOW Festival in Paris.

The 2013-2014 Plonsker Prize will be awarded to a writer of fiction or hybrid prose under forty years of age who has not yet published a full-length book. Fiction writers interested in applying should submit a curriculum vita, no more than 30 pages of a manuscript in progress, and a one-page statement of plans for completion to &NOW Books / Lake Forest College press via Submittable.com. The submission period is January 1 through March 1, 2013; no more than 200 submissions total will be considered. There is no entry fee. 

Inquiries should be directed to andnow@lakeforest.edu with the subject line: Plonsker Prize. Complete guidelines can be found here.