Hilary Leichter

Hilary Leichter, born in 1985, is an American writer. She has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Folger Shakespeare Library, among others. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Harper’s Magazine. Her debut novel, *Die Hauptsache*, was nominated for numerous prizes. In summer 2022, she held the Picador Professorship in Literature at Leipzig University.