R.O. Kwon's nationally bestselling first novel The Incendiaries is being translated into seven languages. Named a best book of the year by over forty publications, The Incendiaries was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for Best First Book and Los Angeles Times First Book Prize. Kwon's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Paris Review, NPR, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow.

Garth Greenwell is the author of Small Rain, which won the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.