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

Her debut novel, MERCY HILL, is forthcoming from Doubleday on May 5, 2026. Preorder here!

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

    Received Contributing Editor Nomination for Pushcart 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)