Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing

Cara Hoffman is the author of Running, a New York Times Editor's Choice, an Esquire Magazine Best Book of 2017, and an Autostraddle Best Queer and Feminist Book of 2017. She first received national attention in 2011 with the publication of So Much Pretty which sparked a national dialogue on violence and retribution and was named Best Suspense 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. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Paris Review, Bookforum, BOMB, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, and on NPR, among others. A Macdowell Fellow and an Edward Albee Fellow, she has been a visiting writer at University of Oxford, St. John's and Goddard College. She is also the author of the classic children’s novels Bernard Pepperlin and The Ballad of Tubs Marshfield. She lives in Athens, Greece.