I’m Hallie Bateman. I’m a freelance writer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. My work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Awl and others. I am the author of Brave New Work (2016), What To Do When I’m Gone (2018) and Directions (2021).

Want to hire me? Or maybe just say hi? Email me at hallie.bateman@gmail.com.

Press/Interviews: Tight Pencils / The Daily Dot / Muse’s Milk / The Wall Street Journal

Odd Behavior

I adapted this Lydia Davis story into comic form for The Paris Review.

Comic cowritten with Nick Bateman, for The New Yorker. View the whole thing here.

Multi-panel comic for The New Yorker. Cowritten with Nick Bateman. Read the whole thing here.

I profiled my favorite climbing trees in the city for the New York Times Magazine. See the whole thing here.

Illustrated poems for The Awl. See them all here.

Collaboration with Jo Livingstone for The Awl. See the whole thing here.

Throughout my first year living in New York, during my daily commutes, I took recordings of subway musicians and sketched them. See & hear them all here.

An illustrated lullaby of sorts for The Oyster Review.

The Awl // January 2015

The Top 10 Only Books I Read This Year / The Oyster Review / December 2014