Hannah Kauders Hannah Kauders is a writer-translator based in Brooklyn. She was a finalist for the Iowa Review Award in fiction, and her translation of Iván Monalisa Ojeda’s Las Biuty Queens is nominated for the 2022 International Booker Prize. She is at work on a memoir grappling with questions of faith, love, and translation leading up to her father’s death.

A History of Pigs in America | Fiction

Hannah Kauders

Again, a naked woman in the living room. This one is pantless, diminutive, with a lavender bob cut just below the ears. I know she sees me because she scurries from the bathroom across the hall into Jorge’s room, pulling the open sides of his hoodie around her.  I never felt weird about meeting Jorge’s conquests when Rafael was here. It seemed natural to bear accidental witness to our roommate’s...