KRISTEN ARNETT

Person smiling and sitting with their hands folded, long dark hair and glasses, wearing a black shirt, surrounded by the greenery of a Florida backyard.

 

 

 

Kristen Arnett is the author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the New York Times bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction. She is a queer fiction and essay writer. She was a Shearing Fellow at Black Mountain Institute and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize recognizing mid-career writers of fiction. Her work has appeared at The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, Guernica, Buzzfeed, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Salon, and elsewhere. Her next book (an untitled collection of short stories) will be published by Riverhead Books (Penguin Random House). She has a Master's in Library and Information Science from Florida State University and currently lives in Miami, Florida.

Read more on Kristen's website.

SESSION: How I Made This: The Natural Mother of the Child, in conversation with Krys Malcolm Belc

In conversation with the author.