BIO

Claire Dederer is a memoirist, essayist, and critic. Her books include the national bestseller Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma; the critically acclaimed Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning; and Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses, which was a New York Times bestseller.

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma is Dederer’s new nonfiction book investigating good art made by bad people. A hybrid of essay, criticism, and memoir, Monsters is based on her globally viral 2017 essay for the Paris Review, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?” Monsters is out now in the US, the UK, and the Commonwealth, as well as the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. Editions are scheduled for France, Korea, Turkey, Brazil, Japan, Portugal, and Italy.

Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Times. Her essays, criticism, and reviews have also appeared in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine, Slate, Salon, and many other publications. She began her career as the chief film critic for Seattle Weekly.

Dederer is the recipient of a Hedgebrook residency and a Lannan Foundation residency.

Dederer lives in Seattle.