Elliott Holt was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and has lived in Moscow, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and New York. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Slate, Time, VQR, Guernica, Kenyon Review online, The Millions, and elsewhere, and she has received a Pushcart Prize. Winner of a 2022 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Holt has also received support and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Summer Workshop, Yaddo, and MacDowell. Her novel You Are One of Them was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, was longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan first novel prize from the Center for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for a first book. Photo by Rebecca Zeller.