Annie Hartnett is the author of the novels Unlikely Animals (Random House, 2022), Rabbit Cake (Tin House Books, 2017), and The Road to Tender Hearts (Ballantine/Random House, 2025). Rabbit Cake was named one of the best books of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews and the Chicago Review of Books, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and a finalist for the New England Book Award.
She co-hosts Good Moms on Paper, a podcast about parenting and writing, and co-runs Accountability Workshops for writers, helping writers commit to routines and embrace the long, slow, joyful, and terrible process of doing the work.
At MacDowell in 2019, Hartnett completed her second novel, Unlikely Animals. The darkly comic novel is about a family who lives on the border of a secret hunting preserve in New Hampshire. During her 2024 residency, she completed her third novel, The Road to Tender Hearts.
