Alison Kinney is the author of two nonfiction books, AVIDLY READS OPERA (NYU Press, 2021) and HOOD (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016), and of the upcoming THE REJECTION LAB (University of Georgia Press, 2025).Her writing on cultural history, social justice, music, and the arts has also been published at The New Yorker.com, The Paris Review Daily, Lapham's Quarterly, The New York Times, The Guardian, VAN Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper's, Longreads, and other publications. She is Assistant Professor of Writing (Non-Fiction) at The New School, Eugene Lang College.--Visit www.alisonkinney.com for publications, bio, events, and contact info.