Episode 30 Exploring Humanity Through Storytelling With Danuta Hinc

Stories and Humanitarian Action

Danuta Hinc is a Polish American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She holds an MA in Philology from the University of Gdańsk where she won the Polish National Competition for best dissertation is the Humanities. She received an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature from Bennington College, where she was awarded the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction. She teaches writing at the University of Maryland. She is the author of We Were Twins which we’re going to discuss today. She is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of English at University of Maryland where she teaches writing.