kate zambreno
Kate Zambreno is the author most recently of Drifts; To Write As if Already Dead, a study of Hervé Guibert; The Light Room; and a collaborative study on tone in literature with Sofia Samatar. They live in Brooklyn with their two children and their partner, John Vincler. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, they are a PhD candidate in performance studies at NYU.
“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.”—Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
“One of our most prolific and curious minds.”—Vulture