In 2026, our collab is back! ARTWIFE Magazine is teaming up with The Inner Loop to bring you interviews with DC-area authors in August, September, October, and November. Join us on the first Tuesday of the month to hear from recently-published novelists, memoirists, and poets in the DMV.

Today we meet Hasan Dudar. Hasan is the author of the short story collection Carryout (University of Iowa Press). He is originally from Toledo, Ohio, and currently lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, DC, where he works in broadcast media. His fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast and Pinch, among other places, and was awarded the 2025 Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. A graduate of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Hasan’s reporting has appeared in various publications including USA Today, Detroit Free Press, The Toledo Blade, Bloomberg News, TRT World, and Aljazeera America. In 2015, he co-produced the award-winning documentary The Last of Little Syria, which follows some of the last Arab American residents living in Toledo, Ohio’s historic Arab enclave.

Buy Hasan's book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/carryout-hasan-dudar/67abd2621a199420?ean=9781685970611&aid=89218&listref=the-artwife-book-club

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