Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti (born 1973) is an American writer and the co-founder of One Story magazine. She is the winner of the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing, the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.

Early life Tinti was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1973. She has worked in bookstore sales, magazine publishing, in literary agencies, and as a commentator for Public Radio’s Selected Shorts.

Career Her first novel, The Good Thief, published in 2008, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and received the American Library Association's Alex Award and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She also published a short story collection, Animal Crackers, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her novel The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley was published in 2017. It was named a best book of 2017 by National Public Radio and the Washington Post. Brooklyn Magazine named her one of 100 "Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture." She is Visiting Graduate Faculty at New York University.

Tinti co-founded the literary magazine One Story in 2002 with Maribeth Batcha. She was Editor-in-Chief of One Story from 2002-2016. One Story has won numerous awards including the AWP Small Press Award, the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize, and the CLMP Firecracker Award. Contributors to One Story include Ann Patchett, Dave Eggers, Lily King, Lauren Groff, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Works Animal Crackers, Review, 2005. , The Good Thief , 2008. , The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, 2017.