Olivia Kan-Sperling works on/in popular prose, criticism as crushing, and texts that perform, especially as other media. Her book Island Time (Expat Press, 2021), about the psycho-geographies of Kendall Jenner and Lil Peep, is a recursive novella figured as a virtual world. It is accompanied by a Music Video Guided Symbolization Reading Game (currently vaporware only). Her writing on art, literature, software, and style has been published in n+1, Cabinet, Spike, and The Paris Review, where she is an assistant editor. She lives in New York.

Joel Danilewitz is a critic based in New York. His writing on art, music, and literature has been featured in Texte Zur Kunst and the Brooklyn Rail, where he is a production assistant.