Marya Hornbacher

Bio

Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist, essayist, novelist, poet, and the New York Times bestselling author of five books. She is the recipient of the Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction, the Logan Fellowship for social justice journalism, the Fountain House Humanitarian Award, and other distinctions. Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and her creative and critical writing appears regularly in publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian Magazine, Crazyhorse, AGNI, Gulf Coast, The Normal School, Fourth Genre, DIAGRAM, Arts & Letters, and many others. She is currently completing her sixth and seventh books, a work of longform journalism on sex and gender in American life and a collection of essays on solitude.