Hannah Lillith Assadi

Hannah Lillith Assadi (“Paradise”) received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. Her first novel, Sonora (Soho 2017), received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2018, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her second novel, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, is forthcoming from Riverhead. Raised in Arizona, she now lives in Brooklyn.