Blair Hurley is a writer, editor, and instructor of writing.

Her first novel, THE DEVOTED, was longlisted for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Her second novel, MINOR PROPHETS, will be published in 2023. Her work is published in New England Review, Electric Literature, The Georgia Review, Guernica, Paris Review Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart Prize winner and an ASME Fiction award finalist. Her story “The Telepathist” was listed as a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2022.

Blair has her A.B. in English and Creative Writing from Princeton University and her M.F.A. in Fiction from New York University.

She lives outside Toronto.