Meghan O’Gieblyn is a writer whose criticism and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, n+1, The Point, The Baffler, Wired, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The New York Times, and other publications. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and the 2023 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her essays have been included in The Best American Essays and The Contemporary American Essay. Her first book, Interior States, won the 2018 Believer Book Award for nonfiction. God, Human, Animal, Machine was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology.