Kate Zambreno is the author of more than ten books that confound genre and think through endurance and duration-variously novels, speculative essays and reports, performative lectures-including Drifts, Appendix Project, To Write as if Already Dead, a study of Hervé Guibert, The Light Room, and Animal Stories. They also co-authored, with Sofia Samatar, a work of experimental criticism, Tone. Forthcoming in Fall 2026 and Fall 2027 from Semiotext(e) are two novels of interiority and precarity, Foam and Performance Art. They are a doctoral student in Performance Studies at NYU. They live in Brooklyn.