Alexandra Kleeman is a Staten Island-based writer and the author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (Harper, 2015) and Intimations (Harper, 2016). She was the winner of the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize and her fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New York Times Magazine, and n+1. She teaches at the New School and is working on her third book, a novel about Hollywood and fake water.