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Writer. Novels include Immigrant, Montana (Knopf, 2018); A Time Outside This Time (Knopf, 2021); My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.