'Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup' Annie Ernaux, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
'The Light Room is both a gift and a beacon' Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations
'Kate Zambreno has performed a miracle, capturing real, lived time from within the exhaustion of pandemic-era parenthood. The Light Room reminded me of that fundamental magic of writing - that the details of another person's life, so precisely and honestly rendered, can instantly loosen the edges of your own life and make you feel less alone' Jenny Odell, bestselling author of How to Do Nothing

'Zambreno's work reminds us that there is grace in going for a walk and feeling the energy of the seasons. There's value in play and stillness and making art even when it feels like the world is on fire' Poets & Writers
'Zambreno is unafraid to show us what she too is made of' Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond
'Kate Zambreno's writing is mysterious, unclassifiable, and yet intimate and familiar too. Reading her is like looking through a kaleidoscope - the world is at once more beautiful and more terrifying' Jenny Zhang, author of Sour Heart

Kate Zambreno is the author of nine books, most recently The Light Room, a meditation on art and care. Tone, a collaborative study with the writer and scholar Sofia Samatar, under The Committee to Investigate Atmosphere, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Zambreno's fiction and reports have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, VQR, Astra, BOMB, and more. Zambreno's books have been translated into seven languages. Kate Zambreno is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches graduate nonfiction at Columbia University. Zambreno is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction.