Hilary Bell is a writer from Nashville, Tennessee. An ASME National Magazine Award Finalist, she was recently named the 2026 Literary Fiction Fellow for the Tennessee Arts Commission. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction and elsewhere. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa, where she was a postgraduate screenwriting fellow. She’s currently at work on a story collection and is represented by Julie Barer at The Book Group.