Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition. A finalist for the Booker Prize, it was one of President Obama’s 2025 Summer Reads. She is also the author of Intimacies. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was also one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Center Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature and the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, Kitamura’s work has been translated into 27 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.