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Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura is the author of five novels, most recently Audition and Intimacies, which was named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of 2021, longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is the recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature and fellowships from the Cullman Center and the Lannan Foundation. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.