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Kate Zambreno

Kate Zambreno is the author of many books, most recently Animal Stories; as well as The Light Room, To Write as if Already Dead, a study of Hervé Guibert, Drifts, and Tone, a collaborative study with Sofia Samatar. Forthcoming in Fall 2026 and Fall 2027 from Semiotext(e) are two novels—Foam and Performance Art. Against Nonfiction, lectures given at Columbia University, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in Spring 2027. They are a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at NYU.