Masha Hamilton

Teaches at Gotham Writers Workshop

Masha Hamilton is the author of five novels: 31 Hours, What Changes Everything, and The Distance Between Us (all Unbridled Books), The Camel Bookmobile (HarperCollins), and Staircase of a Thousand Steps (BlueHen/Penguin Putnam Publishing Group). As a journalist, she worked for the AP in Israel, as the Moscow correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and she wrote a column on Moscow for U.S. newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Dallas Morning News and the Miami Herald. She is the founder of the Afghan Women Writers Workshop, and is formerly the Director of Communications and Public Diplomacy at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She holds a BA from Brown University.