Kyle Beachy is a novelist and essayist living in New Mexico. His memoir-in-essays, The Most Fun Thing (Grand Central, 2021), was named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Electric Lit. His first novel, The Slide (The Dial Press, 2009), was the Chicago Reader’s Readers’ Choice for Best Book By a Chicago Author in 2009. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harvard Review, The Point, Portable Gray, Southwest Review, Thrasher Magazine, and elsewhere.