Cara Hoffman

Cara Hoffman is the author of Running, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, an Esquire Magazine Best Book of the Year, and an Autostraddle Best Queer and Feminist Book of the Year. She first received national attention in 2011 with the publication of the feminist classic So Much Pretty which sparked a national dialogue on violence and retribution and was named a Best Novel of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. Her second novel, Be Safe I Love You, was nominated for a Folio Prize, and named one of the Five Best Modern War Novels by the Telegraph UK. A MacDowell Fellow and an Edward Albee Fellow, she has written for the New York Times, The Paris Review, Bookforum, Bennington Review, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Elle, Brooklyn Rail and NPR. Before her career as a novelist and professor Hoffman worked as a reporter in Appalachia and the Rust Belt covering crime and the environment. She has been a visiting lecturer at Oxford University, currently teaches in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, and is a founding editor of The Anarchist Review of Books. 

Her non-fiction books, one on people’s uprisings and one on the philosophy of escape are forthcoming from Pantheon, and Duke University Press respectively. She lives in New York City and Athens, Greece.