Ilana Masad is a queer Israeli-American fiction writer and book critic with work in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Joyland Fiction, the LA Times, StoryQuarterly, and more. She is the founder and host of The Other Stories podcast. Visit her website ilanamasad.com, subscribe to her tinyletter.com/ilanaslightly, and follow her on Twitter @ilanaslightly.