Hillary Jordan

Hillary Jordan is an award-winning American author and screenwriter known for her socially engaged fiction. She has written two novels, Mudbound and When She Woke, as well as the short story Aftermirth. Mudbound won the 2006 Bellwether Prize and a 2009 Alex Award, and was adapted into a critically acclaimed film. When She Woke is a dystopian novel inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and was a finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award and long-listed for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.