Katherine Hill is the author of two novels, The Violet Hour (Scribner 2013) and A Short Move, (Ig Publishing 2020), which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

With Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Juno Jill Richards, she is also co-author of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Columbia University Press 2020), which won the PROSE Award in Literature from the Association of American Publishers and an Honorable Mention in the MLA Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship.

Her fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous venues, including AGNI, The Believer, Bookforum,
Colorado Review, The Common, Copper Nickel, 
The Guardian, Inkwell, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, The Literary Review, n+1, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Story,
Tin House, and the Wall Street Journal.

As Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University, Katherine teaches undergraduates as well as graduate students in Adelphi's low-residency MFA. Her writing has been supported by the New York Public Library, the T.S. Eliot Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and ​the Corporation of Yaddo. She lives in Brooklyn.

photo by Zoé Fisher