Lydia Millet’s newest book is Atavists: Stories (2025). She has written many novels and story collections, along with a work of nonfiction called We Loved It All: A Memory of Life (2024). Her novel A Children’s Bible (2020) was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Book Review Best 10 Books of 2020; other books have been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, PEN-Center USA, and as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Since 1999 she has worked as a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity.