Hannah Pittard is the author of several novels, including If You Love It, Let It Kill You (Holt, 2025), Listen to Me, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and Visible Empire. A graduate of the University of Chicago and the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Virginia, she received the 2006 Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award. Pittard directs the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Kentucky.
Photograph by Jen Harris.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Visible Empire, a novel excerpt, in Spring 2018
- Listen to Me, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2015–2016
- An Experiment, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2014–2015
- Pretty Parts, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2009–2010