Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams received the 2013 Whiting Writers Award for her novella The Man Who Danced with Dolls and her memoir-in-progress The Following Sea. She has been further supported by a Rona Jaffe National Literary Award and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Oxford American, StoryQuarterly, Orion, and the Southern Humanities Review, among others. Abrams currently teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
