Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams received the 2013 Whiting Award for her novella The Man Who Danced With Dolls and her memoir-in-progress, The Following Sea. She has been further supported by a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and a North Carolina Arts Council fellowship. Her work has appeared in Orion, the Oxford American, StoryQuarterly, The Pinch, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Hannah teaches in the department of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.