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Isabella Hammad was born in London. Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions, The Paris Review, The New York Times and elsewhere. She was awarded the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and a 2019 O. Henry Prize. Her first novel The Parisian (2019) won a Palestine Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors in the UK. She is also the author of the novel Enter Ghost, which won the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize, and Recognizing the Stranger (Grove Atlantic, 2024), which was longlisted for the 2024 NBCC Award for Criticism. Hammad was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and has received literary fellowships from MacDowell and the Lannan Foundation.

This event is part of a WGSS Critical Solidarities series. Thank you to the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, North Park House, and the Comparative Literature Program for co-sponsorship.