Diane Cook is the author of this year’s Booker-shortlisted novel, The New Wilderness, and the story collection, Man V. Nature, a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, the Believer Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. She is a former producer for the radio program This American Life, and was the recipient of a 2016 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.