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Nadja Spiegelman is a writer and editor who lives in New York City. She is the author of the memoir I’m Supposed To Protect You From All This and five books for children, including the award-winning Lost in NYC.

She was, most recently, the editor-in-chief of Astra Magazine, an international literary magazine featuring Catherine Lacey, Mieko Kawakami, Elif Batuman, Brontez Purnell and many more. Before that, she was the online editor of The Paris Review, where she oversaw columns such as Sabrina Orah Mark’s Happily, and viral essays such as CJ Hauser’s “The Crane Wife” and Claire Dederer’s “What Do We Do With The Art of Monstrous Men.

Her writing has appeared in New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, NYT Book Review, The Cut, and more.