Katherine Hill is the author of The Violet Hour, a novel published by Scribner in 2013. Her fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in n+1, The Guardian, and Bookforum, among other publications, and she has taught writing in the MFA Program at Arcadia University as well as prison programs via Princeton and PEN New England. She now serves on the PEN Prison Writing Program Committee and is a regular book critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. A graduate of Yale and the Bennington Writing Seminars, she lives in New York City.
