James Hannaham is an accomplished author with a number of awards and accolades to his name. His novel "Delicious Foods," published in 2016, won the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction, the Hurston Wright Legacy Award, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His first novel, "God Says No," was published in 2009 and was a finalist for a Lambda Book Award, a semifinalist for a VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and was named an honor book by the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Awards.
Hannaham's writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including BOMB, The Literary Review, Nerve.com, Open City, and several anthologies. He has also written for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the Village Voice, Spin, Blender, Out, Us, New York Magazine, The Barnes & Noble Review, and The New York Times Magazine. In 2008, he served as a staff writer at Salon.com.
In addition to his work as a writer, Hannaham is also an experienced teacher. He has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and Fundación Valparaíso and a NYFFA Fellowship. He currently teaches in the Department of Writing at the Pratt Institute. In November 2021, Soft Skull published "Pilot Impostor," a multi-genre book of responses to poems by Fernando Pessoa, and in 2022, Little, Brown will release his third novel, "Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta."