Hannah Lillith Assadi

Assadi, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. She is the author of *Sonora*, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, *The Stars Are Not Yet Bells*, was a *New Yorker* and NPR best book of 2022.