Hanna Pylväinen

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Hanna Pylväinen is from suburban Detroit. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was also a postgraduate Zell Fellow. She is the recipient of residencies at Djerassi, The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachussetts. Her first novel, We Sinners, was published by Henry Holt in 2012. Her second novel, The End of Drum Time, was published by Macmillan in January 2023 and is a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Fiction. Most recently, she is the recipient of the 2012 Whiting Writers' Award, and the 2013 Balcones Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Brooklyn.