Ayana Mathis

AYANA MATHIS’s first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, was a New York Times bestseller and the second selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. It has been translated into sixteen languages. Mathis’s non-fiction has been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Financial Times and Rolling Stone. Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was born in Philadelphia and currently lives in New York City, where she teaches in Hunter College’s MFA creative writing program.