Claire Dederer is a memoirist, essayist, and critic. She is the author, most recently, of Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (Alfred A. Knopf), a New York Times Notable Book that was named a best book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Elle, Esquire, Kirkus, Electric Lit, Apple Books, Audible, The Sunday Times, Vulture, Oprah Daily, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Publishers Weekly. Her previous books are the memoirs Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017); and Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), which was a New York Times bestseller. She is the recipient of the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature.

Maggie Nelson is the author of several acclaimed books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization.