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Hilary Leichter is the author of the novel Temporary (Coffee House Press/Emily Books), which was a finalist for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Temporary was named a best book of 2020 by NPR, Elle, Vulture, and Publishers Weekly. Her new novel, Terrace Story (Ecco), was named a best book of 2023 by Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and the LA Times. Terrace Story is now available in paperback.
Hilary’s reviews, essays, and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, n+1, The New York Times, Conjunctions and elsewhere. Her work in Harper’s Magazine won the 2021 National Magazine Award in Fiction. She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was the summer 2022 Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig. She was named one of Crain’s 2023 40 Under 40.
Hilary teaches at Columbia University where she is a Lecturer and the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in creative writing. She lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn, NY.