Life
Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She lives in New York and is Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of English at Harvard University, where she began teaching in 2009. Additionally, she teaches fiction at in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College. She has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Duke University, The New School, Brooklyn College, and Princeton University. She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
A known dog-enthusiast, Hempel also volunteers at a high-kill shelter in Manhattan and is a founding board member of the Deja Foundation.
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