Ilana Masad

Ilana Masad is an Israeli-American author, essayist and book critic. She identifies as queer. Her work has appeared in theNew York Times,Los Angeles Times,Washington Post,Paris Review,NPR,BuzzFeed,Catapult,StoryQuarterly,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and more. She hosts a podcast on fiction writers called The Other Stories. Ilana is currently studying for her doctorate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and serves as the assistant nonfiction editor for theirPrairie Schoonerquarterly magazine.