Isabella Hammad

Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Conjunctions and elsewhere. She was awarded the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and a 2019 O. Henry Prize. The Parisian was a New York Times Notable Book of 2019, and won a Palestine Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors. She was a National Book Award "5 Under 35" and has received literary fellowships from MacDowell and the Lannan Foundation.