Aging Grace-Fully with Author Ayana Mathis

Ayana Mathis is the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Knopf, 2012)
and most recently, The Unsettled (Knopf, 2023), the inaugural winner
of McSweeney’s Gabe Hudson Prize. The book was named a New York
Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2023, a best of 2023 by The
New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, an Oprah Daily Best Novels of 2023,
and a Kirkus Reviews Best Books of2023.

The New York Times calls it, “Poignant, heartbreaking,” while
The Minneapolis Star Tribune describes it as “An ardent,
ambitious, and carefully stitched tapestry of a novel, one that
deserves and rewards our attention.”

Her first novel, THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, was a New
York Times Bestseller, the second selection for Oprah’s
Book Club 2.0, a 2013 New York Times Notable Book, NPR
Best Book of 2013, and was long listed for the Dublin
Literary Award and nominated for Hurston/Wright
Foundation’s Legacy Award. Mathis’s essays and critcism
have been published in the The New York Times, The
Atlantic, T Magazine, The Financial Times, RollingStone,
Guernica and Glamour. Currently pursuing her Masters of
Divinity at Union Theological Seminary, Mathis’s most recent
nonfiction explores the intertwining of faith and American
literature in her five- part New York Times essay series
“Imprinted By Belief”

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