Hanna Pylväinen is the author of We Sinners, winner of the Whiting Award in fiction. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal. She is the recipient of fellowships at the University of Michigan, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, and Princeton University. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received a Whiting Award in 2012.
At MacDowell, she worked on her second novel, The End of Drum-Time, which tells the story of a minister's daughter who runs away with a reindeer herder in 1850s Lapland.
