RACHEL KUSHNER is the author of the acclaimed essay collection The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 (Scribner), and the internationally bestselling books The Mars Room: A Novel (Scribner), The Flamethrowers: A Novel (Scribner), and Telex from Cuba: A Novel (Scribner), as well as a collection of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K (New Directions). She won the Prix Médicis and was a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Her books have been translated into 27 languages.