HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI, author of Paradiso 17: A Novel (Knopf) and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. She is also the author of Sonora,which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells,was a Neoyorquino and NPR best book of 2022.
