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 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