Alexandra Kleeman is a writer and scholar based in Brooklyn, NY. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, BOMB, Gulf Coast, and is forthcoming in Guernica. Her nonfiction has appeared in Tin House, Golden Handcuffs Review and is forthcoming in n+1. She received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University, and has received grants and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She is currently completing a PhD in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley.