Katherine A. Hill | Faculty Profiles

Diplomas/Degrees

MFA, Bennington College (2008)

BA, Yale University (2004)

Recent Courses

Advanced Fiction

Creative Non-Fiction Workshop

Manuscript Research

Writing Creative Non-Fiction

Writing Fiction

Specialization/Interests

Creative Writing

Contemporary Fiction

The Novel

Book Criticism

Books

(novel). Ig Publishing, 2020.

(with Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Jill Richards). Columbia University Press, 2020.

(novel). Scribner, 2013.

Conference Presentations

“Polygraphy: A Seminar on Collaborative Criticism.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Annual Conference. College Park, MD. October 12, 2019.

“What a Heroine Can Do: Female Protagonists Take Back the Narrative.” Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Annual Conference. Portland, OR. March 30, 2019.

"The Slow Burn: Karl Ove Knausgaard's Struggle." Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), 10th Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. October 19, 2018.

"Reaching from There to Here: Broadening Student Perspectives Through Place-Focused Literature." National Book Foundation Why Reading Matters Conference. Brooklyn, NY. June 7, 2018.

"Shooters Gotta Shoot: Voice in Sports." Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Annual Conference. Tampa, FL. March 8, 2018.

“Establishing a Sense of Place in Your Writing.” Conversations and Connections Conference. University of the Arts. Philadelphia, PA. September 28, 2013.

Invited Presentations

"Absent Author: Elena Ferrante's The Story of a New Name." 92nd Street Y. New York, NY. October 30, 2020.

"Elena Ferrante in Translation." Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago, IL. October 6, 2020.

"American Innovations: A Conversation with Rivka Galchen." 糖心破解版 MFA Program. New York, NY. November 20, 2019.

"The First Novel." General Studies Learning Community. 糖心破解版. Garden City, NY. February 17, 2017.

“Time Trial: The Novel.” MFA Literary Colloquium. Sarah Lawrence College. Bronxville, NY. November 16, 2016.

"Night at the Fiestas: A Conversation with Kirstin Valdez Quade." 糖心破解版 MFA Program. New York, NY. October 20, 2016.

“Arrogant Sympathy: The Invention of Character.” Arden Seminars. Harvard Club of New York City. April 17, 2014.

“Writing About Place.” Kelly Writers House. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. April 12, 2012.

Other Work

"Illusions: HBO's 'My Brilliant Friend,'" The Nation, June 1, 2022.

"A Portrait of the Artist," Review of In the Margins by Elena Ferrante. The Guardian, March 16, 2022.

"Whenever She Has This Dream, Someone in Her Village Dies." Review of What You Can See From Here by Mariana Leky. New York Times Book Review, June 22, 2021.

"Who Gets to Save the World? Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Imagination," The Nation, April 13, 2020.

"Amy Hempel's Powerful Brevity," The New Republic, May 7, 2019.

"Dear Each and Every One of You." Essay in "The Slow Burn, vol. 2: Summer of Knausgaard," Post 45. October 26, 2018.

"Knausgaard's final book of 'My Struggle': Reality hunger, middle-class life, and epic passion." Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 2018.

"It seemed right that I try to transform myself by writing it." Conversation with Ross Simonini. The Believer Logger. January 8, 2018.

"Shadow Worlds: Jennifer Egan's new novel maps the networks of power under New York's surface." The Nation, December 4-11, 2017.

"There are plenty of male writers I can't abide." Essay in "The Slow Burn, vol. 2: Summer of Knausgaard." Post45. August 25, 2016.

"The Slow Burn: A Summer of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels." Serial essays with Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Jill Richards. Post45. 2015.

"If you love love, you have to love doomed love, too." The Guardian. February 14, 2014.

"The Tournament of Literary Friends." The Paris Review Daily. July 29, 2013.

"Literature's Fight Club." The Wall Street Journal Speakeasy. July 19, 2013.

"Master Class." Essay on Lynne Sharon Schwartz. The Paris Review Daily. April 4, 2013.

Creative Scholarship

"On the Surface." Short story. Copper Nickel. Issue 41. Fall 2025.

"Common People." Short story. Inkwell. Issue 39. Spring 2024.

"In the Tank." Short story. Story. Issue 17. Summer 2023.

"Desire." Short story. Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, Issue 34. Summer 2022.

"Coach." Short story. CONSEQUENCE. June 2020.

"The Elena Ferrante in My Head." Essay. The Paris Review Daily. January 2020.

"Draft Day." Short story. The Common. Issue 18. Fall 2019.

"Scarlett." Short story. The Literary Review. Fall 2014.

"May, Monrovia." Essay. Guernica. October 2014.

"Provincetown." Essay. The Common Online. July 2013.

"Modern Athena." Essay. The Common Online. December 2012.

"Boxwood." Short story. The Common. May 2012.

"The Finest Milled Cotton." Short story. n+1. February 2012.

"Krasnoyarsk." Short story. AGNI. January 2012.

"Waste Management." Short story. Colorado Review. December 2010.

"The Work Boyfriend." Short story. Philadelphia Stories. April 2010.

"Seven Brides." Short fiction. Word Riot. October 2008.

Grants

Orchard House Residency, 2019

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017

New York Public Library Wertheim Study Fellowship, 2016

Yaddo Fellowship, 2015

Honors and Accomplishments

T.S. Eliot House Fellowship, 2026

糖心破解版 Faculty Excellence Award (Creative Work), 2025

Honorable Mention, MLA Award for Collaborative Bibliographical or Archival Scholarship, 2022

PROSE Award in Literature, 2021

New York Times Editors' Choice, 2020

Longlisted for Dzanc Prize for Fiction, 2018

Hardman Writer-in-Residence, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 2016

Visiting Writer, Arcadia University, 2014

Visiting Writer, University of Hawaii, 2014

Nelligan Prize for Fiction, 2010

Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, 2009

Professional Activities

Chair, Prison Writing Program Fiction Committee, PEN America