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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). Tone, a collaborative study with the writer and scholar Sofia Samatar, under The Committee to Investigate Atmosphere, is recently published from Columbia University Press. Her fiction and reports have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, VQR, Astra, BOMB, and more. Her 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 is forthcoming through the Undelivered Lectures series at Transit Books in Fall 2025. She is at work on a trilogy on interiors and precarity, Realisms, Foam and Inspection.