Ilana Masad

Ilana Masad is an Israeli-American author, essayist and book critic. She identifies as queer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Washington Post , Paris Review , NPR , BuzzFeed , Catapult , StoryQuarterly , McSweeney’s Internet Tendency , and more. She hosts a podcast on fiction writers called The Other Stories. Ilana is currently studying for her doctorate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and serves as the assistant nonfiction editor for their Prairie Schooner quarterly magazine.