MARIS KREIZMAN is an essayist and columnist for Literary Hub whose work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, and Esquire. She hosted The Maris Review, an intimate author interview podcast, from 2018 to 2023. A former board member of the National Book Critics Circle, she has served as a judge for the annual NBCC Awards as well as for the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. She is the creator of Slaughterhouse 90210, a blog and book that celebrates the intersection of literature and pop culture. She was previously the editorial director of Book of the Month, the editorial director of digital content at barnesandnoble.com, and a publishing outreach lead at Kickstarter.