Mason Currey is the author of the  Daily Rituals books- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (2013) and Daily Rituals: Women at Work (2019)-featuring brief profiles of the day-to-day work habits of more than 300 brilliant minds. He has worked as the managing editor of  Metropolis, the executive editor of  Print, and a senior editor at  Core77, and his freelance writing has appeared in the  New Yorker, the  New York Times, the  Atlantic, and  Slate. Currey lives in Los Angeles and writes Subtle Maneuvers, a twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process.