Masha Hamilton

Novelist. Journalist. Speaker. Teacher.

I have traveled around the world collecting, writing and sharing stories, both fictional and non-fictional: stories of terrorists and refugees, kidnapped victims and their captors, both reluctant and eager travelers, street artists, reporters overseas. I founded two international literary non-profits and worked as Communications lead for the US Embassy in Kabul and an international NGO. I enthusiastically teach fiction, non-fiction and business writing as I continue to pursue my own writing projects. The web is a big place; thank you for pausing here.

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What Changes Everything:

“As real and immediate as a racing pulse, Hamilton’s dark jewel of a novel turns the political into the personal...” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Pictures of You
“Everyone once in a while, a book comes along that makes you want to wrest even your own work from readers’ hands and command that they read this instead...” —Meg Waite Clayton, bestselling author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters and The Language of Light
“A stunning collage of loss, grief, love, and most of all, survival...” —Jillian Cantor, author of Margot
“What Changes Everything shows us the dance of war in all its heartbreaking details, weaving into the most secret places in the human heart...” —Laura Fitzgerald, author of Dreaming in English
“Thrilling and magnificent...” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Pictures of You
“In the end, I felt I understood some truth I had not brought with me to the book, and I felt uplifted and hopeful that writing like this might, in fact, be a step toward changing everything...” —Meg Waite Clayton, bestselling author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters and The Language of Light

Novelist. Journalist. Speaker. Teacher.

What Changes Everything:

31 HOURS, A NOVEL:

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