Hannah Pittard is the author, most recently, of the novel Visible Empire, which was an Amazon Editors' Pick for Summer Fiction, an IndieNext List Pick, a New York Times "New and Noteworthy" Selection, an O Magazine Book of Summer, and one of Southern Living's Best New Books of Summer.
Her previous novel, Listen To Me, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, a Washington Post Best Summer Thriller, an Entertainment Weekly Seriously Scary Summer Read, a Millions Most Anticipated Book, a Lit Hub Buzz Book, and a Refinery 29 Best Books So Far.
Other novels include Reunion (named a Millions Most Anticipated Book, a Chicago Tribune Editor's Choice, a BuzzFeed Top-5 Great Book, a "Best New Book" by People Magazine, a Top-10 Read by Bustle Magazine and LibraryReads, a Must-Read by TimeOut Chicago, and a Hot New Novel by Good Housekeeping) and The Fates Will Find Their Way (named an O Magazine selection, an IndieNext List Pick, a Powell's Indiespendible Book Club Pick, and a "best of" by The Guardian, The Chicago Tribune, Details Magazine, The Kansas City Star, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader, and Hudson Booksellers).
She is winner of the 2006 Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award and is a consulting editor for Narrative Magazine. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, American Scholar, Oxford American, McSweeney's, TriQuarterly, BOMB, and many other publications. She directs the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Kentucky.
Hannah Pittard worked on her second novel. Her first novel, The Fates Will Find Their Way, was published in January 2011 by Ecco. She teaches fiction at DePaul University.
During her 2012 MacDowell Fellowship, Pittard worked on her second novel.
