Arnett, Kristen

Kristen Arnett is the author of With Teeth (Riverhead Books), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction; The New York Times bestselling novel Mostly Dead Things, which was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award; and the story collection Felt in the Jaw. She was awarded a Shearing Fellowship at Black Mountain Institute and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize recognizing mid-career writers of fiction. A queer writer based in Florida, she has written for The New York Times, Guernica, BuzzFeed, McSweeney’s, The Guardian, Salon, and elsewhere. She will be at Miami Book Fair 2022 to moderate a conversation with author Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel (Flatiron Books).