Kathleen Alcott's first novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets, published in 2012. Her fiction, criticism, and essays appear in publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, ZZYZZVA, The Believer, The Coffin Factory and elsewhere, and her short story `Saturation' was listed as notable in The Best American Short Stories of 2014. Born in Northern California in 1988, she currently resides in Brooklyn.