Hanna Pylväinen

Hanna Pylväinen is an American novelist.

Pylväinen grew up in suburban Detroit. Her family belonged to a conservative Finnish Lutheran church. Her strict religious upbringing inspired her first novel, We Sinners, which follows the individual members of a large religious family as they grapple with their faith. Pylväinen attended Mount Holyoke College and received a Creative Writing MFA from the University of Michigan. Her writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

• 2012 Whiting Award
• 2014-2015 Princeton Arts Fellow

• We Sinners. Henry Holt. 2012. ISBN 978-0-80509-533-3.