Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels Hold Still and Want, which has been named a best book of 2020 by Kirkus, Time, NPR, and The New Yorker. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Bomb, Guernica, Literary Hub, Catapult, Elle.com, The Cut, New York Magazine, LARB, The Millions, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Columbia and Catapult and her next novel FLIGHT is forthcoming from Custom House.