Elizabeth Greenwood is the author of Love Lockdown: Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prison System and Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, Entrepreneur, VICE, Longreads, GQ, and more, and she has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, the Norman Mailer Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, among others.