Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, it was one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025. It was also a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Carol Shields Prize. Her previous novel, Intimacies, was one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize in Literature, Berlin Prize, Cullman Center Fellowship and the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, Kitamura’s work has been translated into 29 languages and is being adapted for film. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.