Hilary Leichter is the author of the novel Temporary, which was shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Her National Magazine Award-winning writing has appeared in n+1, The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times, and Conjunctions. Leichter was the Summer 2022 Picador Guest Professor for Literature at Leipzig University, and is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her new novel, Terrace Story, is forthcoming in Summer 2023 from Ecco.
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Professor and Alumna Hilary Leichter '12 Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2020 First Novel Prize
This week, the Center for Fiction announced that Adjunct Assistant Professor Hilary Leichter '19 has been shortlisted for the 2020 First Novel Prize for her novel, Temporary (Coffee House Press, 2020).?
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'Temporary,' Debut Novel by Alumna and Faculty Member Hilary Leichter Drops in March
Alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor?Hilary Leichter?’12 debuts her novel,?Temporary, releasing on March 3 from Coffee House Press.?
? Sylvie Rosokoff
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Creative Writing
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