Kate Zambreno

Kate Zambreno is the author of more than ten books that confound genre—variously novels, speculative essays and reports, performative lectures—including Heroines, Drifts, Book of Mutter, The Light Room, To Write as if Already Dead, and Animal Stories, They also co-authored, with Sofia Samatar, a work of experimental criticism, Tone. Forthcoming from Semiotext(e) in Fall 2026 and Fall 2027 are two novels of interiority and precarity, Foam and Performance Art. Against Nonfiction: Writing Through Capitalist Realisms, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in Spring 2027. They are a doctoral student in Performance Studies at NYU, thinking through resistance and duration.

photo: Carolyne Loreé Teston