Hope is the author of more than six nonfiction books, including the international best-seller Motherless Daughters, which has been translated into eleven languages, as well as her newest book The Possibility of Everything.  She regularly publishes essays in the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere, and has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year distinction, and inclusion in the Medill Hall of Achievement.  She now teaches creative writing at Antioch College.

“I arrived in Iowa City as a disillusioned journalist; I left as a writer and teacher of literary nonfiction. My three years in the Nonfiction Writing Program were the three most influential years of my professional training. Two decades later, it remains a training ground for some of the most talented nonfiction writers in the country.”