Hannah Pittard Biography

Hannah Pittard's fiction has appeared in McSweeney's The Oxford American The Mississippi Review BOMB Nimrod and StoryQuarterly and was included in 2008 Best American Short Stories' 100 Distinguished Stories. Her debut novel The Fates Will Find Their Way (Ecco) has been praised by The Washington Post as a wistful novel about how little we know of one another and by O The Oprah Magazine as A stunning novel about making up stories as we go along...[a] mesmerizing debut. A perfect speaker for colleges and libraries as well as common reading programs across the country Pittard's presentations are imbued with the same poise and prose found in her novel.
The Fates Will Find Their Way begins with the disappearance of 16-year-old Nora Lindell. As the days and years add up the mystery surrounding her disappearance lingers. The boys who befriended revered and lusted after her find themselves caught forever in the heady current of her absence. Their conflicting eyewitness accounts told in the voice of an omniscient collective narrator (referred to only as We) run up against divergent suspicions and projections renewed regularly by sworn glimpses of the elusive Nora and the rumors they in turn inspire.

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