Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and the essay collection Abandon Me (Bloomsbury, 2017). Kelly Link is the author of the story collections Stranger Things Happen, Pretty Monsters, Magic for Beginners, and Get in Trouble (Random House, 2016), a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction. This event is hosted by NYU Creative Writing Program faculty member and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Darin Strauss.