Ryan Ruby is the author of The Zero and the One: A Novel (Twelve Books, 2017) and a book-length poem, Context Collapse, that was a finalist for the 2020 National Poetry Series competition. His work has appeared online or in print at the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, the Baffler, Harper's, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. A recipient of the 2019 Albert Einstein Fellowship, he lives in Berlin.