Hannah Pittard

Hannah Pittard is the author of four novels. She is a winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell Colony fellow, and a graduate of Deerfield Academy, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia. She also spent some time at St. John’s College in Annapolis. She is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky and lives in Lexington with her boyfriend and stepdaughter.

The Morning Following the Discovery of the Affair

From Hannah Pittard’s “Sort of” Memoir

May 4, 2023 By Hannah Pittard

“I Spent the First 19 Years of my Life Defending my Virginity!”

Men, Sex, and What it Means to Be a Woman: Conversations with My Mother

June 5, 2018 By Hannah Pittard

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