Clare Sestanovich, named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022, is the author of the debut novel, Ask Me Again, published by Knopf in 2024. Her story collection, Objects of Desire (Knopf, 2021), was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Harper’s Magazine. She is the managing editor at The Drift and lives in Brooklyn.