Maya Binyam

Maya Binyam joins the Literature Department as an Assistant Professor of Literature. Binyam is the author of the novel Hangman, which was named a 2024 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree, received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. She is the recipient of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize and the 2025 - 2026 Rome Prize in Literature. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, New York, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She is an advisory editor at The Paris Review. Previously, Binyam worked as a senior editor at Triple Canopy and The New Inquiry, and as a lecturer in The New School’s Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program. Her work has been supported by Blue Mountain Center, Art Omi, and Headlands Center for the Arts, where she received the McLaughlin Children’s Trust Award. She earned her B.A. from Yale University.