American writer, she is the author of Gone to the Forest and Knock-out, both of which were finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award in 2012 and 2014. She writes for the New York Times, the Guardian, and the publications Granta, Bomb, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. Her work A Separation was published in 2017, and her novel Intimacies was a nominee for the National Book Award and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize in 2021; the New York Times rated it one of the five best novels of the same year.

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