Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and finalist for the NYPL’s Young Lions award, and the short story collection Intimations. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Paris Review, Zoetrope, Tin House, VOGUE, and n+1. A graduate of the Brown undergraduate program in Literary Arts, she has done graduate work at UC Berkeley and Columbia University. She lives in Staten Island, and was the 2016 winner of the Bard Fiction Prize.