Isabella Hammad was born in London.
She is currently a fellow at the Columbia University Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris..
She was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and has received literary fellowships from MacDowell and the Lannan Foundation.
Her first novel The Parisian (2019) won a Palestine Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Betty Trask Award from the Society of Authors in the UK.
Henry Prize.
She was awarded the 2018 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and a 2019 O.
Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions, The Paris Review , The New York Times and elsewhere.
Isabella Hammad was born in London