Hannah
Michell

Hannah Michell was born in England and raised in Seoul. Her first novel, The Defections, was published in France and the UK in 2014 to wide acclaim. Her second novel, Excavations (One World, 2023), was named one of the best crime novels of 2023 by LitHub and one of the top ten mysteries of 2023 by Publishers Weekly. She has taught at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and the Dominican University of California.

In the summer semester of 2026, Hannah Michell was Picador Visiting Professor of Literature at the University of Leipzig in the Department of American Studies.