James Hannaham is the author of the novel Delicious Foods, winner of the 2016 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 by McSweeney’s 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. His short fiction has appeared in BOMB, The Literary Review, Nerve.com, Open City, and several anthologies.
Books in order of publication:
God Says No (2009) McSweeney’s Publishing
Delicious Foods (2015) Little Brown
Pilot Imposter (2021) Soft Skull
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (2022) Little Brown
Oak Lawn Library Friends 