Hannah Lillith Assadi

Author

**Hannah Lillith Assadi** received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. She also attended Columbia University for her bachelor's where she received the Philolexian Prize for her poetry and fiction and graduated summa cum laude. She was raised in Arizona by her Jewish mother and Palestinian father and now lives in Brooklyn. Her novel \_Sonora\_ (Soho 2017) is a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Photo: [HannahLillithAssadi.com](https://hannahlillithassadi.com/about/ "Hannah Lillith Assadi")