Maris Kreizman is the host of The Maris Review, a literary podcast from LitHub. She’s an essayist and critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Review of Books, New York Magazine, the LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, The Ringer, and more. She was previously the editorial director of digital content at B&N.com, and a publishing outreach lead at Kickstarter. As a former book editor and former editorial director of Book of the Month, she enjoys critiquing her own writing.