Author Hanna Tinti is Touring Alaska in September

Author Hannah Tinti tours Alaska with stops in Anchorage, Homer, and Tutka Bay

49 Writers is pleased to host author Hannah Tinti on her tour of Alaska in September. Tinti will begin in Anchorage with a public reading and book signing at The Writer’s Block Bookstore and Café on September 5. She will read in Homer on September 6 with a reading co-hosted by the Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College. Hannah will complete the tour as guest author and instructor at the 49 Writers 9th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, September 7-9.

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. Her new novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, was published in March 2017 by The Dial Press (U.S.A.) and Tinder Press (U.K.), and has been optioned by director Matt Reeves/6th & Idaho, producer Michael Costigan/Cota Films & Endemol Shine. It has been nominated for an Edgar Award, and was named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Washington Post and Paste Magazine. Target recently chose The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley for their paperback bookclub and is distributing a special edition nationwide in Target stores.

Hannah has worked at bookstores, magazines, publishing houses, and literary agencies. In 2002 she co-founded the award-winning magazine One Story and for 14 years was acting Editor in Chief. She is now Executive Editor. 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.

Hannah is also a celebrated teacher of creative writing. She co-founded the Sirenland Writers Conference in Italy with Dani Shapiro, Michael Maren, and Antonio & Carla Sersale. She has taught writing at New York University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, Columbia University’s MFA  program, CUNY, and at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.

She grew up in Salem, Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn, New York (where she was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture). You can follow her @hannahtinti.

TOUR DETAILS

Wednesday, September 5, 7 PM

Reading and book signing with author Hannah Tinti

The Writer’s Block Bookstore & Cafe, 3956 Spenard Rd, Anchorage

FREE

Thursday, September 6, 2018, 6:30 PM

Reading and book signing with author Hannah Tinti

Kachemak Bay Campus, 533 E Pioneer Ave, Homer, AK

FREE

Meet author Hannah Tinti, and hear her read from her latest works. Hannah will also be available for a book signing after the reading.

The Tutka Bay Writers Retreat is open to only 16 writers per year by application and features a three-day workshop with a visiting author and instructor in the unparalleled setting of Tutka Bay Lodge. More information about the retreat is available on the 49 Writers web site.