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These gardens have ponds, treehouses, rabbits, chickens and frogs. Here’s a map! She first received national attention in 2011 with the publication of the feminist classic So Much Pretty which sparked a national dialogue on violence and retribution and was named a Best Novel of the Year by the New York Times Book Review.

Her second novel, Be Safe I Love You, was nominated for a Folio Prize, and named one of the Five Best Modern War Novels by the Telegraph UK.

Every Friday evening the Musuem of Modern Art is FREE. It’s Ours!

Hi! She lives in New York City and Athens, Greece.

Selected Publications

So Much Pretty (Simon and Schuster 2011)

Be Safe I Love You (Simon and Schuster 2014)

Running (Simon and Schuster 2017)

Berenice Abbott, Portraits of Modernity (Fundación MAPFRE 2019) 

RUIN (PM Press 2022)

Riot Days (Pantheon, Forthcoming)

Escaping  (Duke University Press, Forthcoming) 

Children's Books

Bernard Pepperlin (Harper Collins 2019)

The Ballad of Tubs Marshfield (Harper Collins 2021)

Cara Hoffman is the author of Running, a New York Times Editor's Choice, an Esquire Magazine Best Book of the Year, and an Autostraddle Best Queer and Feminist Book of the Year.

Originally from Northern Appalachia, Hoffman dropped out of high school to work as a newspaper reporter and attend graduate school, receiving an M.F.A.

Remember Friends! She has been awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship and a Cill Rialaig Fellowship, has been a visiting writer at University of Oxford, Columbia, and St.

John’s and teaches at the Stonecoast M.F.A. It’s at East 74th street, near the Fifth avenue entrance. There are also dozens of WATER PLAYGROUNDS in New York City. A MacDowell Fellow and an Edward Albee Fellow, she has written for the New York Times, The Paris Review, Bookforum, Bennington Review, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Elle, Brooklyn Rail and NPR. Before her career as a novelist and professor Hoffman worked as a reporter in Appalachia and the Rust Belt covering crime and the environment.

Most of these gardens are smack in the middle of The East Village, in spots where buildings burned down a long time ago. You can read those books when you’re tall enough to ride the roller coaster at Coney Island, but not before.

cara hoffman biography

You can also take a ferry to Governors Island. I write books about adventurous mice, lock picking lizards, revolutionary rats, coffee addicted squirrels, fast-talking bodega cats, beautiful queens and opera singing frogs. I’m afraid you can’t ride the Cross Town Ferry—that’s for animals only—but you CAN take a FREE ride on the Staten Island Ferry and get up close to the Statue of Liberty.

You can visit the dozens and dozens of free art galleries downtown. There’s even a statue of BERNARD, in Central Park!

DID YOU KNOW…

There are more than ONE HUNDRED hidden community gardens all over Manhattan.

You can even wake up early and go to the Chelsea Flower Market—and if you’re lucky run into Henry and Bernard.

You can wander around The Strand—They have 18 MILES OF BOOKS!!