Miriam Gordis is a writer living in New York. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Drift, The New Inquiry, Lux, and elsewhere. She studied at the University of Oxford and the CUNY Graduate Center, and she is a bookseller and former literary scout. She has worked as a reader for the Whiting Award for Nonfiction, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and for Guernica Magazine. She runs a newsletter about culture called Small Wire.