Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, How This Night Is Dif­fer­ent, and edi­tor of the anthol­o­gy Freud’s Blind Spot. Her sto­ries and essays have appeared in Time, The Guardian, The New York Times, n+1, Ben­ning­ton Review, Tin House, Michi­gan Quar­ter­ly Review, The Lit­er­ary Review, the Los Ange­les Review of Books, and else­where. She lives in upstate New York.