Hannah Kofman

Hannah Kofman has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, T Magazine, MUBI notebook, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
In 2025, her story won the Carrie Scott Galt Writer's award and she was a semi-finalist for the Fine Arts Work Fellowship. Her stories have been shortlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize and longlisted for the Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest and the A Public Space Fellowship. She has received support from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Under the Volcano, VCCA, Disquiet International, Tin House, and NY State Writers Institute.
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. 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
Selected Writing
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