Hannah Kofman

Hannah Kofman is a writer from Los Angeles pursuing an MFA in fiction at Washington University in St. Louis.

In the past she's worked on a farm, in a restaurant, and as a tutor. Her reviews and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, MUBI notebook, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her fiction explores bodies in pain and what we hide from ourselves.

She is currently an intern at Dorothy, a publishing project, an award-winning experimental feminist press.

You can reach her via email at kofman.hannah@gmail.com.

Writing

• "Borderless Text: On Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against the Axe," Los Angeles Review of Books, 2024
• "The Divorce of Women's Hands: On Johanne Lykke Holm's Strega," Los Angeles Review of Books, 2022
• "Cinema Embodied: The Spell of Syros," An essay on working and watching movies at a Greek film festival, MUBI Notebook, 2022
• "Mirrors and Portals: Sam Cohen's Sarahland," A review of Sam Cohen's Sarahland, Michigan Quarterly Review, 2021
• "Toeing the Trap," A review of Tove Ditlevsen's The Copenhagen Trilogy, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2021