Nate Lippens is the author of the novel My Dead Book (Publication Studio, 2021 and Pilot Press London, 2022), a finalist for The Republic of Consciousness Prize. His next novel, Ripcord, as well as a reissue of My Dead Book, will be published by Semiotext(e) and Pilot Press in fall 2024. His fiction has appeared in the anthologies Little Birds (Filthy Loot, 2021), Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (Pilot Press, 2022), and Pathetic Literature, edited by Eileen Myles (Grove, 2022).