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HannahÌýLillithÌýAssadi is the author ofÌýSonoraÌý(Soho 2017),Ìýwhich 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. Her second novelÌýThe Stars Are Not Yet BellsÌý(Riverhead 2022)Ìýwas named aÌýNew YorkerÌýand NPR best book of 2022. Her third novelÌýParadiso 17,Ìýinspired by the life of her late Palestinian father, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2026. SheÌýteaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½. In 2018, she was named a ‘5 under 35’ honoree by the National Book Foundation.

MFA, Fiction, Columbia University School of the Arts

BA, Middle Eastern Literature and Creative Writing, Columbia University