Lucy Sante is an author and critic whose books include Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, and I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition. A longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, she has also written for numerous other periodicals. Sante's accolades include a Whiting Writer's Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy for album notes, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Cullman Center. She has taught writing and the history of photography at Bard College since 1999.