Miriam Gordis is a writer living in New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, The Drift, The New Inquiry, Verso, Hobart, and The Cleveland Review of Books. She studied at the University of Oxford and the CUNY Graduate Center, and she is a bookseller and former literary scout. She runs a newsletter about culture called Ephemeras. She has served as a reader for the Whiting Award for Nonfiction and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.