Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley (Tinti) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1972
• Raised—Salem, Massachusetts, USA
• Education—B.A., Connecticut College; M.F.A., New York University
• Awards—PEN/Noral Magid Award, Magazine Editing; Alexa Award
• Currently—lives in in Brooklyn, New York City

Hannah Tinti is an American writer and the co-founder of One Story magazine. Raised in Salem, Massachusetts, she earned her Bachelor's Degree from Connecticut College in 1994 and her Master's from New York University.

In 2002, Tinti co-founder of One Story magazine for which she received the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing in 2009. She now serves as the magazine's executive editor.

Her first novel, The Good Thief, published in 2008, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; it received the American Library Association's Alex Award and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her second novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley was released in 2017.

Tinti has also published a short story collection, Animal Crackers, which was among the runners-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award.

In addition to writing and editing, Tinti also teaches creative writing, co-founding the Sirenland Writers Conference in Italy. She has also taught writing at New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program, Columbia University's MFA  program, City University of New York, and the Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Tinti lives in Brooklyn, New York City, where in 2014 she was listed as one of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture." (Adapted from Wikipedia and the author's website. Retrieved 3/25/2017.)