Join us Tuesday, October 24 at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading and conversation with Danuta Hinc, author of When We Were Twins.

Danuta Hinc is a Polish-American award-winning novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She holds an MA in Philology from the University of Gdańsk, Poland where her dissertation titled, Historia Literatury Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza, won the Polish National Competition for the best dissertation in the Humanities. She also holds an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College, where she received the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction. She completed three years of postgraduate studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 

When We Were Twins was translated from the Polish by the author, and an earlier edition of the book was published under the title, To Kill the Other, described by Midwest Book Review as “a fascinating and well-written story…a highly recommended pick, not to be missed.” Askold Melnyczuk described When We Were Twins by saying, “The questions her novel explores--about love and war, about family, peace, and the price of freedom—couldn’t be more urgent. Hinc’s imagination here revs at full throttle, and we would be wise to go along for the ride,” while Sven Birkerts concluded, “Infused with urgency and propelled by a sense of the world in catastrophe mode, Danuta Hinc's When We Were Twins exposes the tangled fates of people caught up in events they cannot control. The prose finds its pulse right from the start and the reader feel its animating force throughout.”

Hinc’s essays and short fiction have appeared most recently in Literary Hub, Washingtonian Magazine, Popula, The Brick House, and Consequence Magazine, among others. She is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches writing. For more information, please visit her website.

When We Were Twins can be purchased here.

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