Katie Kitamura is the author of Gone To The Forest and The Longshot, both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, Kitamura has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and The White Review.  She is a regular contributor to Frieze. She was creative consultant on the documentaries The Pervert’s Guide To Cinema (2006) and The Pervert’s Guide To Ideology (2012), directed by Sophie Fiennes and featuring Slavoj Zizek. Her third novel, A Separation, will be published in 2017.