Portrait by Clarke Davis
Halle Hill (b. 1994) is a 4th generation Affrilachian from Knoxville, Tennessee. She’s the author of GOOD WOMEN (Hub City Press, 2023) which was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, Oprah Daily, and the Southwest Review. She is the winner of the 2021 Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 ASME Award for Fiction.
Her stories have been translated into French and published in journals including Joyland, New Limestone Review, Southwest Review, Atlanta Magazine, Ursa Short Fiction and The Oxford American, where she won the 2020 Debut Fiction Prize.
Since 2018, Halle has led craft workshops and lectures at universities and organizations across the U.S. and around the world, including Appalachian State University, Wake Forest, University of Tennessee, Columbia University, and ISIT-Paris. She serves on the Board of Trustees for The North Carolina Writers’ Network.
For teaching and/or speaking inquiries, send her an email.
Halle is represented by Rayhané Sanders at Massie Mcquilkin & Altman (MMQA). She writes a newsletter/portal called deerbaby and lives in the woods of central North Carolina with her partner. She is at work on a novel in verse and stories.