Hannah Kofman

Hannah Kofman has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, MUBI notebook, and Michigan Quarterly Review.

Her story won the Carrie Scott Galt Writer's award and she was a semi-finalist for the Fine Arts Work Fellowship in 2025. Other accolades include being shortlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize 2024 and longlisted for the 2024 Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest. In 2021, she was longlisted for A Public Space Fellowship. At Barnard College, she won the Anna Quindlen/Axinn Foundation Award, a $25,000 prize granted to a graduating senior. She has received support from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Disquiet International Conference, Tin House Novel Workshop, and NY State Summer Writing Institute.

Most recently she interned at Dorothy, a publishing project, an award-winning experimental feminist press. She's also interned at The Los Angeles Review of Books and O, Oprah Magazine in the books department.

In the past she's worked on a farm, in a restaurant, and as a tutor. Her fiction is interested in the narcissism of suffering and the intricacies of family relationships. She's currently working on a novel and a short story collection.

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