Occupation: | Writer, editor |
Birth Place: | United States |
Alma Mater: | Connecticut College (BA) New York University (MA) |
Notableworks: | The Good Thief |
Hannah Tinti (born 1973)[1] is an American writer and the co-founder of One Story magazine. She received the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing in 2009 for One Story,[2] as well as the Alex Awards.
Tinti was born in 1973. She graduated from Connecticut College in 1994 and has a master's degree from New York University.[3]
Her first novel, The Good Thief, published in 2008, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year,[4] and received the American Library Association's Alex Award[5] and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.[6] She also published a short story collection, Animal Crackers, which was among the runners-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award.[7] Her novel The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley was published in 2017.[8] It was named a best book of 2017 by National Public Radio and the Washington Post.[9] [10]