Claire Dederer is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning and Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, which was a New York Times bestseller. She is at work on Monsters, a nonfiction book investigating good art made by bad people, forthcoming from Knopf. The book is based on her viral 2017 essay for the Paris Review, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?” Dederer is a long-time contributor to the New York Times. Her essays, criticism, and reviews have also appeared in the Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Vogue, Slate, Salon, New York, Elle, and many other publications.