Hannah Thurman is a Brooklyn-based writer originally from Raleigh, NC whose fiction has been published widely.

Her debut novel, Deeds in the Body, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2026.

She was recently named a 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction.

Winner of the 2023 Florida Review’s Editor’s prize, she’s been chosen for conferences/residencies at Bread Loaf, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, and Yaddo.

Selected Publications

  • Beautiful F__ing Problems

    Winner of the Florida Review’s Annual Fiction Prize

    Florida Review (Print, Summer 2024)

  • Thin Skin

    Longlisted for the 2022 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize

    Southern Indiana Review (Print, Fall 2023)

    Interview where I talk about this piece (S.I.R. podcast)

  • Agency

    The Iowa Review (Print, Fall 2023)

  • Widows and Orphans

    Meridian (Print, Fall 2017)

  • Around the World in 365 Days

    The Yalobusha Review (September 2015)

    Link

  • A Snowball's Chance

    Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

    Newfound Journal (October 2016)

    Link

  • Butter Eggs

    The Brooklyn Rail (Print, June 2015)

  • New Timing

    Aethlon (Print, May 2015)

  • Three Ounces or Less

    Michigan Quarterly Review (Print, December 2014)

  • Lease on Life

    The Lifted Brow (Print, August 2014)