Maya Binyam is the author of Hangman, which was named a 2024 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree, received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles.

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