Hannah Kofman

Hannah Kofman is a writer living in Los Angeles. She has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she won the Carrie Scott Galt Writer's award. Her work has appeared in T Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, MUBI notebook, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Her short fiction earned honorable mention in the 2026 Waasnode Fiction Prize and will appear in a forthcoming issue of Passages North. Her stories have also been shortlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize and longlisted for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Award and A Public Space Fellowship. She has received support from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Under the Volcano, VCCA, New York State Writers Institute, Disquiet International, and Tin House.
She's interned at Dorothy, a publishing project, Los Angeles Review of Books, and O, Oprah Magazine in the books department. She's also worked on a farm, in a restaurant, and as a tutor.
She is currently working on a novel and a short story collection.
You can reach her via email at kofman.hannah@gmail.com
Selected Writing
T Magazine · 2026
How to Start a Garden
T Magazine · 2026
Three Simple Breakfast Recipes to Learn by Heart
Los Angeles Review of Books · 2024
Borderless Text: On Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against the Axe
Los Angeles Review of Books · 2022
The Divorce of Women's Hands: On Johanne Lykke Holm's Strega
MUBI Notebook · 2022
Cinema Embodied: The Spell of Syros
Michigan Quarterly Review · 2021
Mirrors and Portals: Sam Cohen's Sarahland
Los Angeles Review of Books · 2021
Toeing the Trap: On Tove Ditlevsen's The Copenhagen Trilogy