Hannah Kofman

A photo of Hannah Kofman standing on a busy street in Athens. The background is blurred, Hannah is smiling. She's wearing a vintage beige leather jacket, sunglasses and has her hair in a ponytail.

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