Kristen Radtkeis the author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (2021) and Imagine Wanting Only This (2017).
She is the art director and deputy publisher of The Believer magazine.
The recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant, her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Elle, Vanity Fair, Vogue, NPR.org, and many other places.
Books in order of publication:
Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women – 2016
After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays – 2017
Imagine Wanting Only This – 2017
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness – 2021
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