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Kate Zambreno is the author of ten books, most recently the novel Drifts (Riverhead), a study of Hervé Guibert, To Write As If Already Dead (Columbia University Press), and The Light Room, a meditation on art and care, (Riverhead and Corsair). Tone, a collaborative study with the writer and scholar Sofia Samatar, under The Committee to Investigate Atmosphere, is recently published from Columbia University Press. Their fiction and reports have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, VQR, Astra, BOMB, and more. Their books have or will be translated into Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Turkish and Arabic. She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Zambreno is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. Animal Stories, a book on zoos and Kafka, is forthcoming through the Undelivered Lectures series at Transit Books in Faautumnautull 2025. They live in Brooklyn with their partner, John, their two children, and their dog, Genet.