Hanna Pylväinen
Hanna Pylväinen is an American novelist and an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Life
Pylväinen grew up in suburban Detroit. Her family belonged to a conservative Finnish Lutheran church. Her strict religious upbringing inspired her first novel, We Sinners, which follows the individual members of a large religious family as they grapple with their faith.[1] Pylväinen attended Mount Holyoke College and received a Creative Writing MFA from the University of Michigan. Her writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.[2]
Awards and honors
- 2012 Whiting Award
- 2014-2015 Princeton Arts Fellow
Works
- We Sinners. Henry Holt. 2012. ISBN 978-0-80509-533-3.
References
- ↑ "Faith, Family And Forgiveness In 'We Sinners'". NPR.org. 23 August 2012.
- ↑ "Hanna Pylväinen". Lewis Center for the Arts.
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