KRISTEN ARNETT

New York Times BestSelling Author + Queer Essayist + Librarian

Photo credit: Maria Rada

located near: Orlando, FLorida

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Kristen Arnett is the queer author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the NYT bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She was awarded a Shearing Fellowship at Black Mountain Institute, has held residencies at Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Millay Colony, and the Key West Literary Seminar, and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her work has appeared at The New York Times, TIME, The Cut, Oprah Magazine, Guernica, Buzzfeed, McSweeneys, PBS Newshour, The Guardian, Salon, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Her next novel, STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE, will be published by Riverhead Books (Spring 2025), followed by the publication of an untitled collection of short stories. Kristen currently writes a popular column for LitHub. She has a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University and lives in Orlando, Florida.