Christopher Sorrentino is the author of six books, including Trance, a National Book Award Finalist for fiction, The Fugitives, and Now Beacon, Now Sea, a New York Times ​Notable Book in 2021. His work has appeared in A Public Space, The Baffler, The Believer, BOMB, Bookforum, Conjunctions, Esquire, Fence, Granta, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, McSweeney's, The New York Times, Open City, The Paris Review, Playboy, Tin House, and many other publications. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and he was Writer-in-Residence at Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2011. He also has taught at Columbia University, NYU, the New School, and at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.