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.