Andrew Rid­ker’s debut nov­el, The Altru­ists, was a New York Times Edi­tors’ Choice, a Paris Review staff Pick, and the Peo­ple Book of the Week. A Die Presse Book of the Year, it was trans­lat­ed into more than a dozen lan­guages. He is the edi­tor of Pri­va­cy Pol­i­cy: The Anthol­o­gy of Sur­veil­lance Poet­ics and his writ­ing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Le Monde, and Book­fo­rum, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. He is a grad­u­ate of the Iowa Writ­ers’ Workshop.