Hermione Hoby is the author of the novels Neon in Daylight, a two-time New York Times editors’ choice, and Virtue, which was shortlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Harper’s, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, Bookforum, and elsewhere. Raised in south London, she graduated from Cambridge in 2007, and subsequently spent ten years in New York. She now lives in Boulder, CO.
While at MacDowell, Hoby began work on a short novel, working title Victims. Her residency at MacDowell was “an extraordinarily productive time.” She came away with eighty pages of this manuscript. She also wrote an essay on the history behind the slogan "Bread and Roses", which will appear in the next issue of Cakezine.
Portrait by Benjamin Kunkel
