R.L. Maizes & Ali Solomon

R.L. Maizes is the author of the novel A Complete Fiction, out November 4. Maizes’s debut novel, Other People’s Pets, won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in Fiction and was a Library Journal Best Debut of Summer/Fall 2020. She is also the author of the short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper. Her stories have aired on National Public Radio, have been produced by Stories on Stage, and can be found in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and in The Best Small Fictions 2020. Maizes’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and have aired on NPR. She is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and the recipient of a Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for 2024-2025 for her novel-in-progress. Maizes lives in Niwot, Colorado. Learn more at RLMaizes.com.

Ali Solomon is a writer and cartoonist from New York. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Believer, among others. She is the author/illustrator of I Love(ish) New York City: Tales of City Life (Chronicle 2022). Her first middle-grade graphic novel is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. www.ali-solomon.com