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Hannah Tinti is a writer, editor, and teacher.  Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her best-selling novel, The Good Thief, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award, winner of the The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award. She is now finishing a new novel.

Hannah has worked at bookstores, magazines, publishing houses, and literary agencies. In 2002 she co-founded the award-winning magazine One Story and for the past 12 years has been its Editor in Chief. In 2009 she received the PEN/Nora Magid award for excellence in editing and in 2014 One Story won the AWP Prize for Best Small Press. In 2011, she joined the Public Radio program, Selected Shorts, as their Literary Commentator, interviewing authors and actors about the importance of literature and reading.

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First Cuts from First Draft - Hannah Tinti

"Balloons" by Til Punto

"Beauty" by Til Punto

"Burning Fingers" by Til Punto

"Marking Time" by Til Punto

"Order" by Til Punto

"Palace Guards" by Til Punto

"Ornithomancy" by Maureen Alsop

"Eromancy" by Maureen Alsop

"Necromancy" by Maureen Alsop

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan’s "Here, God" is an elegiac poem for every homeland wrestling with unrest and war. It's also a memorial, a way of remembering the victims of this unrest and war.

https://www.thesouthernreview.org/issues/detail/Spring-2025/272/

“Here, God” by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan

In this episode, poet and critic Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib debates with editor-at-large Andrew Grace on whether or not song lyrics should be considered literature. Ranging from considerations of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Lil Yachty and 2 Chainz, Abdurraqib explains the importance of taking popular music seriously and notes how poets can enhance their craft by paying close attention to the lyric strategies of songwriters.

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, A Conversation

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, A Conversation

The Kenyon Review

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