Hanna R. Neier
Hanna R. Neier is a former attorney and current freelance writer and editor. She was the 2025 winner of the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award, and her essays, interviews, critiques and lifestyle articles have appeared in numerous publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, two kids, and one indestructible sourdough starter.
WHEN YOU WRITE BACK
12-year-old pen pals discover their letters are traveling through time, and one is determined to save the other--a Jewish kid living in Nazi-occupied Paris-- before time runs out.
When You Write Back is a dual point-of-view novel written in letters between Ellie and her school-assigned pen pal, Daniel. When Ellie realizes their letters are traveling through time, and that Daniel is a Jewish kid living in 1942 Nazi-occupied Paris, she is determined to save him. But as time runs out, and Ellie’s own world unravels, she wonders whether it might be Daniel who is meant to save her. Exploring the power and magic of connecting with another person through words, Ellie and Daniel demonstrate that friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places.
Publication
US: Macmillan (Feiwel and Friends)
Release date: 9 March 2027
