Danuta's profile
Danuta Hinc is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University of Maryland at College Park, where she teaches writing.
She holds an M.A. in Philology from Gdansk University in Poland. She completed three years of postgraduate studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2014 she received the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction from Bennington College, and graduated with her M.F.A. in Writing in June 2016.
She is the author of To Kill the Other (Tate 2011), the fictionalized life story of one of the 9/11 hijackers. Reviewers praised it for its important new perspective: “Hinc has written a lucid, utterly gripping speculation expanding our understanding of who the hijackers were and what motivated them. She provides an important new perspective to the event that has transformed our lives” (Jacket)
Hinc has also published short fiction and essays in literary magazines worldwide.
She is currently working on a novel, Angels in the Forest that is based on the life of her grandfather and WWII. She is also working on a collection of short stories, Europe Without a Name, based on people and events in her family and the history of 20th century Europe. She also started translating into Polish The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel.
Related links can be found here: http://www.pw.org/content/danuta_hinc
She holds an M.A. in Philology from Gdansk University in Poland. She completed three years of postgraduate studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2014 she received the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction from Bennington College, and graduated with her M.F.A. in Writing in June 2016.
She is the author of To Kill the Other (Tate 2011), the fictionalized life story of one of the 9/11 hijackers. Reviewers praised it for its important new perspective: “Hinc has written a lucid, utterly gripping speculation expanding our understanding of who the hijackers were and what motivated them. She provides an important new perspective to the event that has transformed our lives” (Jacket)
Hinc has also published short fiction and essays in literary magazines worldwide.
She is currently working on a novel, Angels in the Forest that is based on the life of her grandfather and WWII. She is also working on a collection of short stories, Europe Without a Name, based on people and events in her family and the history of 20th century Europe. She also started translating into Polish The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel.
Related links can be found here: http://www.pw.org/content/danuta_hinc
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