Lucy Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium, in 1954. Her most recent books are I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir/Autobiography, and Six Sermons for Bob Dylan. She is also the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, The Other Paris, and Nineteen Reservoirs. She has been the recipient of a Whiting Award, Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography. Sante has contributed to the New York Review of Books since 1981 and to many other publications. She taught writing and the history of photography at Bard College for twenty-four years and lives in Ulster County, New York.