Lila Hawthorn is a novelist and essayist raised on the Oregon coast and now based in New York's Hudson Valley. She studied anthropology at Reed College and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short work has appeared in Tin House Online, The Believer, and n+1, and she has taught community writing workshops throughout the Northeast. A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Ucross, she lives near Cold Spring with her partner, an architect, and a rescued gray cat. Her debut novel, The Blue Hour of Cypress, appeared with a small press in 2018.
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