Katherine J. Chen is the author of Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc, which won the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and Mary B. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and other publications, with forthcoming work elsewhere. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Boston University's MFA program in Fiction and is pursuing her doctoral degree in English at Brown University, where she is studying Henry James.